{"id":7580,"date":"2010-10-30T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2010-10-30T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T19:03:58","slug":"more-dem-opposition-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7580\/more-dem-opposition-to-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"More Dem Opposition to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After publishing today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/29\/AR2010102905966.html \" target=\"_blank\">denunciation of President Barack Obama<\/a> as the reincarnation of Richard Nixon, self-professed liberal Democrats Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen don\u2019t need to guess if they\u2019ll be getting a White House Christmas card this year.\u00a0 The duo doesn\u2019t break new ground with their criticisms of the president, but they do enlarge the chorus of commentators disturbed by Obama\u2019s style.\u00a0 From the section recounting Obama\u2019s sins against campaign decorum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, Obama is conducting himself in a way alarmingly reminiscent of Nixon&#8217;s role in the disastrous 1970 midterm campaign. No president has been so persistently personal in his attacks as Obama throughout the fall. He has regularly attacked his predecessor, the House minority leader and &#8211; directly from the stump &#8211; candidates running for offices below his own. He has criticized the American people suggesting that they are &#8220;reacting just to fear&#8221; and faulted his own base for &#8220;sitting on their hands complaining.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it possible that the man who ran the longest presidential campaign in history is already looking to extend the record?\u00a0 If so, 2012 can\u2019t arrive soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After publishing today\u2019s denunciation of President Barack Obama as the reincarnation of Richard Nixon, self-professed liberal Democrats Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen don\u2019t need to guess if they\u2019ll be getting a White House Christmas card this year.\u00a0 The duo doesn\u2019t break new ground with their criticisms of the president, but they do enlarge the chorus [&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":[782,914,143,2020,2019,1576],"class_list":["post-7580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-doug-schoen","tag-pat-caddell","tag-richard-nixon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580","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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}