{"id":2929,"date":"2013-09-10T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2016-10-21T20:22:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:22:13","slug":"mccains-poker-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s Poker Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Senator John McCain, the man who gave us Sarah Palin, was caught last week playing online poker on his iPhone. What&#8217;s the big deal right? Well, it happened to be <a title=\"John McCain Plays Poker While Colleagues Discuss Bombing Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/03\/john-mccain-poker_n_3862592.html\" target=\"_blank\">during a hearing about military intervention in Syria<\/a>. But the kicker was that, later in the week, he had the audacity to suggest that <a title=\"John McCain: Obama Impeachment Would Happen If America Put 'Boots On The Ground' In Syria \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/06\/john-mccain-obama-impeach_n_3880997.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obama could be impeached for putting &#8216;boots on the ground&#8217; in Syria<\/a>. This from an ex-military man who has supported not only military intervention in Syria, but bombing Iran (to a Beach Boys tune no less) and the clusterf*ck that was the Iraq War. Talk about your mixed messages. Just think if McCain would&#8217;ve gotten into office. We might have our military in four, five or six different countries in the Middle East by now. We&#8217;re thinking that maybe it&#8217;s time for the good Senator to retire to one of his eight or ten or twenty houses that he owns so he can play online poker full time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2930\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2930\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2930\" title=\"mccainimpeachobama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccainimpeachobama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccainimpeachobama.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccainimpeachobama-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator John McCain shows off his only discernible remaining skill: playing online poker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Senator John McCain, the man who gave us Sarah Palin, was caught last week playing online poker on his iPhone. What&#8217;s the big deal right? Well, it happened to be during a hearing about military intervention in Syria. But the kicker was that, later in the week, he had the audacity to suggest that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McCain&#8217;s Poker Face&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,85,3],"tags":[22,27,9,774,679,115,458,575,21,43,98,631,596,19,785,680,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5059,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions\/5059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}