{"id":4526,"date":"2010-03-31T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2010-03-31T12:20:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T17:20:11","slug":"obama-drilling-for-votes-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4526\/obama-drilling-for-votes-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Drilling for Votes in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to Virginians, but the Commonwealth isn\u2019t the first place most people think about when the issue of off-shore drilling comes to mind.\u00a0 But President Barack Obama isn\u2019t most people.\u00a0 In a move that can only be understood as ploy to win back some of the support he lost with his cavalier attitude towards a state that helped give him the presidency, Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/news\/ap\/politics\/2010\/Mar\/31\/obama_to_allow_oil_drilling_off_virginia_coast.html \" target=\"_blank\">clearing the way for more oil platforms<\/a> along the Atlantic seaboard.\u00a0 Maybe this kind of targeted job creation will be enough to distract Virginians from the fact that their Attorney General is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalnewsline.com\/news\/226411-cuccinelli-health-care-challenge-will-cost-almost-nothing \" target=\"_blank\">challenging Obamacare<\/a> in the courts.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, there is at least one state that won\u2019t benefit from the president\u2019s newfound interest in domestic oil supplies: Alaska.\u00a0 Probably just a coincidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to Virginians, but the Commonwealth isn\u2019t the first place most people think about when the issue of off-shore drilling comes to mind.\u00a0 But President Barack Obama isn\u2019t most people.\u00a0 In a move that can only be understood as ploy to win back some of the support he lost with his cavalier attitude towards a [&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":[1026,143,35,1025,704],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alaska","tag-barack-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-oil-drilling","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","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=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}