{"id":13439,"date":"2012-03-15T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13439"},"modified":"2012-03-20T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:41:41","slug":"obama-campaigns-on-taxpayer%e2%80%99s-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13439\/obama-campaigns-on-taxpayer%e2%80%99s-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaigns on Taxpayer\u2019s Dime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video clip of President Barack Obama speaking to what looks and sounds like a campaign crowd in a community college outside Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object style=\"width: 425px; height: 350px;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Rsz3uLxTwQs?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"width: 425px; height: 350px;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Rsz3uLxTwQs?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The problem is that federal officeholders \u2013 like the U.S. President \u2013 aren\u2019t supposed to campaign on the taxpayers\u2019 dime.\u00a0 That\u2019s why presidential campaigns like Obama for America exist.\u00a0 The press picked up on this and asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to comment.\u00a0 His response: <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/wh-flat-earthers-dig-policy-message\/429836\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cIt\u2019s a policy statement\u201d<\/a> to call Republicans who won\u2019t subsidize alternative energy boondoggles like Solyndra \u201cmembers of the flat-earth society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the O-Man wonders why Republicans don\u2019t like him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this video clip of President Barack Obama speaking to what looks and sounds like a campaign crowd in a community college outside Washington, D.C. The problem is that federal officeholders \u2013 like the U.S. President \u2013 aren\u2019t supposed to campaign on the taxpayers\u2019 dime.\u00a0 That\u2019s why presidential campaigns like Obama for America exist.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,195,3043],"class_list":["post-13439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-energy","tag-solyndra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13439\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}