{"id":16456,"date":"2008-08-02T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16422.html"},"modified":"2008-08-02T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T20:30:15","slug":"never-ever-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/never-ever-old\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Never, ever, old&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT&#8217;s Michael Powell had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/02\/us\/politics\/02obama.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=all\">odd observation<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even some Republicans are not convinced that Mr. Obama intended to accuse Mr. McCain of racism, as there\u2019s no percentage for him. <b>Mr. McCain talks of himself as experienced but never, ever, old<\/b>; Mr. Obama talks of change but charily of his status as a historic first. [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? I think Powell might need to watch more television:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4894c177e624f04a\/483072b1e5d05fb\/337e88b8\" id=\"W4727a250e66f97234894c177e624f04a\" height=\"283\" width=\"384\"><param value=\"http:\/\/widgets.nbc.com\/o\/4727a250e66f9723\/4894c177e624f04a\/483072b1e5d05fb\/337e88b8\" name=\"movie\"\/><param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\"\/><param value=\"all\" name=\"allowNetworking\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Or maybe just listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/POLITICS\/blogs\/politicalticker\/2006\/12\/mccain-im-older-than-dirt.html\">more<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/01\/25\/08-hopeful-mccain-i-am_n_39584.html\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2007-03-18-mccain-health_N.htm\">McCain&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/17686656\/\">campaign<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wgal.com\/politics\/14767889\/detail.html\">speeches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am older than dirt,&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;More scars than Frankenstein.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reporters who cover the campaign do actually watch the campaign, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NYT&#8217;s Michael Powell had an odd observation today. Even some Republicans are not convinced that Mr. Obama intended to accuse Mr. McCain of racism, as there\u2019s no percentage for him. Mr. McCain talks of himself as experienced but never, ever, old; Mr. Obama talks of change but charily of his status as a historic [&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-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","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=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}