{"id":15726,"date":"2012-09-01T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15726"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T19:26:49","slug":"republicans-damn-obama-with-faint-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15726\/republicans-damn-obama-with-faint-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Damn Obama with Faint Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0912\/80549.html \" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Allen<\/a> of Politico sums up the highly successful line of attack Republicans aimed at President Barack Obama during their nominating convention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Republicans landed a punch on Obama, it was the kind of strategic body blow that a skillful pugilist deploys to gain better position for the rest of the fight.<\/p>\n<p>No roundhouse, no jaw-splitter, no knockout. It was the kind of shot aimed at subtly shifting momentum and softening up the opponent in a way that may not be evident to the casual observer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allen is right and Obama\u2019s camp knows it.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they\u2019ve been running a character assassination campaign against Mitt Romney \u2013 felon, murderer \u2013 instead of talking about any of the President\u2019s accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact is there aren\u2019t any successes directly attributable to Obama worth talking about.\u00a0 The more the Romney team can make this election a \u201cgood man, bad president\u201d referendum on the incumbent, the more likely it is that Obama will be a one-term wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Allen of Politico sums up the highly successful line of attack Republicans aimed at President Barack Obama during their nominating convention: If Republicans landed a punch on Obama, it was the kind of strategic body blow that a skillful pugilist deploys to gain better position for the rest of the fight. No roundhouse, no [&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":[2033,143,1193,3518,2026,160,1470],"class_list":["post-15726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-convention","tag-election","tag-mitt-romney","tag-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726","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=15726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15731,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15726\/revisions\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}