{"id":10868,"date":"2012-05-10T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2012-05-10T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:34:01","slug":"commentary-president-obama-wont-be-swift-boated-on-bin-ladens-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/10\/commentary-president-obama-wont-be-swift-boated-on-bin-ladens-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: President Obama won’t be ‘swift-boated’ on Bin Laden’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rock Hill Herald<\/em> has this Commentary: President Obama won’t be ‘swift-boated’ on Bin Laden’s death<\/strong><\/a> by James Werrell.<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama is determined not to get swift-boated. He’s not going to let Republicans turn one of the crowning achievements of his first term into a negative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That should be lesson number one for any Democratic candidate.\u00a0 Lesson number two should be that you can take an opponent’s main selling point and turn it into a negative.\u00a0 For instance, Mitt Romney’s “business experience” of buying up companies, draining them of all their assets, and then letting them stick it to their creditors and employees by going bankrupt, is not how we want this country’s President to operate.<\/p>\n

Sure it would be great for some of the wealthy 1% to drain this country of all its assets – privatize all government operations by selling them off at fire sale prices to the lowest bidder, drain all the money promised to Social Security and Medicare payees, and then let the bones of our economic infrastructure bleach in the parched territory of underfunded infrastructure investment – but I don’t think this is what an aware voter really wants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rock Hill Herald has this Commentary: President Obama won’t be ‘swift-boated’ on Bin Laden’s death by James Werrell. President Barack Obama is determined not to get swift-boated. He’s not going to let Republicans turn one of the crowning achievements of his first term into a negative. That should be lesson number one for any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10875,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}