{"id":3010,"date":"2008-08-20T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2008-08-20T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T17:17:01","slug":"what-the-press-misses-in-obamas-vp-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/08\/20\/what-the-press-misses-in-obamas-vp-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Press Misses in Obama&#8217;s VP Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_20_08\/2008_08_20_sirota.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_08_20_08\/2008_08_20_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=60% src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/blog.mlive.com\/elections_source\/2008\/02\/large_080226-obama-biden.jpg&#038;usg=AFQjCNHw4aweUinnisL1KZFeNpPF6tNGeg\" alt=\"obama\" \/>The mainstream press is driving itself into a frenzy trying to guess who Barack Obama and John McCain will pick as their running mates for November&#8217;s election. Names are thrown up, chances are tallied, and personalities are analyzed. Meanwhile both candidates are lapping up the theatrics, carefully choosing the time and place of the announcement for maximum effect. Yes, such things can actually have an effect on one&#8217;s odds of being president. When John Kerry announced John Edwards as his running mate 4 years ago, the candidates milked the announcement for every percentage point, gaining 4% in the polls after an elaborate 4-day rollout which was dutifully covered in the press. Today we&#8217;ll look at the angles that the mainstream media avoids with respect to Barack Obama&#8217;s VP pick &#8211; what positions the potential candidates have taken on important issues, and the racial dynamics that Obama faces in feeling the need to balance his blackness with a white running mate.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: David Sirota, best-selling author whose latest book is coincidentally called The Uprising. Sirota is a fellow at the Campaign for America&#8217;s Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The mainstream press is driving itself into a frenzy trying to guess who Barack Obama and John McCain will pick as their running mates for November&#8217;s election. Names are thrown up, chances are tallied, and personalities are analyzed. Meanwhile both candidates are lapping up the theatrics, carefully choosing the time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}