{"id":17595,"date":"2015-02-06T19:59:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T02:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17595"},"modified":"2015-02-06T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T02:59:50","slug":"dreaming-of-democratic-presidential-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/dreaming-of-democratic-presidential-tickets.html","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming of Democratic presidential tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17596\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/Warren-Headshot.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17596\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/Warren-Headshot-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sacajawea redux\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve signed petitions encouraging Elizabeth Warren (the extremely liberal and rather\u00a0blonde Massachusetts Democrat who is our only Native American senator) and Bernie Sanders (the Vermont socialist and senator who, although listed as Independent, caucuses \u2014 who could possibly have predicted it? \u2014 with the Democrats) to toss their hats into the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I could go for an Elizabeth Warren ticket with Al Sharpton, say. \u00a0Or, maybe, Bernie Sanders with Jane Fonda, if she\u2019s still up to it. \u00a0(She\u2019s supposed to be quite fit, I believe.)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now I\u2019m thinking that, if <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/04\/will-brian-williams-get-away-with-misrem\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> can persuade NBC news anchor Brian Williams to join her as her vice presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket, I just might endorse her after <em>all<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d already been struck\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/clintons\/hillary.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the fact <\/a>that, when Ms. Clinton was born in 1947, her mother named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand beekeeper who would become world famous and even be knighted for his 1953 conquest of Mount Everest (with Tenzing Norgay).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not quite up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrepublican.com\/clintonfabrication.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">her husband\u2019s high standard<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and, don\u2019t forget, he was our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2014\/04\/03\/bill_clinton_i_loved_being_called_the_first_black_president.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cfirst black president\u201d<\/a> \u2014\u00a0but the Hillary-to-Hillary story is pretty impressive, and adding Brian Williams to the ticket could seal the deal. \u00a0For me, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve signed petitions encouraging Elizabeth Warren (the extremely liberal and rather\u00a0blonde Massachusetts Democrat who is our only Native American senator) and Bernie Sanders (the Vermont socialist and senator who, although listed as Independent, caucuses \u2014 who could possibly have predicted it? \u2014 with the Democrats) to toss their hats into the ring for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dreaming of Democratic presidential tickets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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