{"id":3841,"date":"2010-02-18T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:14:01","slug":"its-the-merchandise-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3841\/its-the-merchandise-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Merchandise, Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News\u2019 Political Hotsheet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/17\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6216739.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that \u201cMiss Me Yet?\u201d merchandise, based on the Minnesota billboard featuring a smiling, waving George W. Bush is hot.\u00a0 That is not surprising, given the publicity that the billboard has gotten, largely because it was the subject of mystery and not the typical multiple press releases.<\/p>\n<p>What did surprise us was the note at the end of the piece (from U.S. News and World Report reporting earlier this month) that the Obama Store in Washington\u2019s Union Station has closed.<\/p>\n<p>Polls are just polls, but merchandise sales?\u00a0 That\u2019s humiliating.\u00a0 (Wasn\u2019t Larry Summers in charge of merchandise?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News\u2019 Political Hotsheet reports that \u201cMiss Me Yet?\u201d merchandise, based on the Minnesota billboard featuring a smiling, waving George W. Bush is hot.\u00a0 That is not surprising, given the publicity that the billboard has gotten, largely because it was the subject of mystery and not the typical multiple press releases. What did surprise us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[491,873,14],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-george-w-bush","tag-miss-me-yet","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}