{"id":16197,"date":"2012-10-17T18:13:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16197"},"modified":"2012-10-17T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T22:13:14","slug":"crowley%e2%80%99s-libya-gaffe-keeps-obama-missteps-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16197\/crowley%e2%80%99s-libya-gaffe-keeps-obama-missteps-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowley\u2019s Libya Gaffe Keeps Obama Missteps in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2012\/10\/17\/a-sour-taste-of-candy\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Stacy McCain<\/a>: \u201cBy highlighting the Libyan issue and adding a new element of controversy, however, Crowley inadvertently ensured that the administration&#8217;s failure in Benghazi will be the focus of post-debate news coverage &#8212; which is unlikely to improve Obama&#8217;s re-election chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, every news site covering the presidential campaign has at least one entry mentioning the Libya story &#8211; none of it favorable to the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n<p>And even though some are prone to think Mitt Romney missed his one great opportunity to skewer President Obama with the Libya debacle, Romney gets another chance.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/debate2012.lynn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">next and last debate<\/a> is focused solely on foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>Wanna bet Mitt will be ready next time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Stacy McCain: \u201cBy highlighting the Libyan issue and adding a new element of controversy, however, Crowley inadvertently ensured that the administration&#8217;s failure in Benghazi will be the focus of post-debate news coverage &#8212; which is unlikely to improve Obama&#8217;s re-election chances.\u201d Indeed, every news site covering the presidential campaign has at least one entry [&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":[2033,143,1972,216,2436,160],"class_list":["post-16197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-debate","tag-foreign-policy","tag-libya","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197","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=16197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16202,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16197\/revisions\/16202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}