{"id":2702,"date":"2008-06-10T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/10\/obama-likes-edwards-heath-care\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T07:18:00","slug":"obama-likes-edwards-heath-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/obama-likes-edwards-heath-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Likes Edward&#8217;s Heath Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama&#8217;s speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn&#8217;t in the speech&#8217;s prepared remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    &#8220;By the way, I&#8217;m going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we&#8217;re going to be figuring all this out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/06\/obama_to_partner_with_elizabet.php\">source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Anybody know where I got this?  It just was sitting there open on my computer &#8230; I&#8217;d like to give a &#8216;hat tip&#8217; &#8230;.  Maybe Obama has been poking around in my basement again&#8230;.]<!--more-->This is interesting at so many levels.  For one thing, this means that Obama will not be asking Clinton to be VP.  Right?  Or, conversely, it could be a signal that Obama IS going to ask Clinton to be VP.  Or perhaps, this is just a bit hard to read.The very positive thing about this is that Obama is looking at Edwards and saying &#8220;OK, we had different plans, but I&#8217;m deciding to work towards melding them, or even shifting to hers&#8230;&#8221;  Is this &#8220;waffling&#8221;?  It will be called that by the Dumb Republican League, but no, it&#8217;s being smart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out: Obama&#8217;s speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn&#8217;t in the speech&#8217;s prepared remarks: &#8220;By the way, I&#8217;m going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we&#8217;re going to be figuring all this out.&#8221; source &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/obama-likes-edwards-heath-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama Likes Edward&#8217;s Heath Care<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-HA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}