{"id":15642,"date":"2008-05-23T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15642.html"},"modified":"2008-05-23T15:45:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:45:57","slug":"mccain-didnt-expect-to-be-here-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mccain-didnt-expect-to-be-here-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain didn&#8217;t expect to be here right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in August 2000, Jim Lehrer asked John McCain about his future presidential plans. McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/05\/23\/in-2000-mccain-admits-hed-be-too-old-to-run-in-2008\/\">all but ruled out<\/a> running in &#8217;08, because of his age.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LEHRER: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you?<\/p>\n<p>McCAIN: Certainly it\u2019s been put in deep cold storage. (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>LEHRER: You haven\u2019t lost it?<\/p>\n<p>McCAIN: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bet that&#8217;s a quote he&#8217;d like to take back now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in August 2000, Jim Lehrer asked John McCain about his future presidential plans. McCain all but ruled out running in &#8217;08, because of his age. LEHRER: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you? McCAIN: Certainly it\u2019s been put in deep cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}