{"id":11081,"date":"2012-05-25T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2012-05-25T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:24:41","slug":"put-out-a-prairie-fire-with-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/05\/25\/put-out-a-prairie-fire-with-gasoline\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Out A Prairie Fire With Gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>USA Today<\/em> has actually chosen a different sound bite to headline this story.\u00a0 They use <a title=\"USA Today article\" href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2012\/05\/obama-romney-offers-cow-pie-of-distortion\/1#.T7-h3VKwWEN\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama: Romney offers &#8216;cowpie of distortion&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer the headline I chose.\u00a0 According to President Obama, Mitt Romney went to Iowa and described the current slow down in government spending as a &#8220;Prairie Fire Of Debt&#8221;.\u00a0 He then described Romney&#8217;s prescription as putting out the supposed prairie fire of debt by using the gasoline equivalent of an extra $5 trillion in tax cuts.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"420\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1655404130001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DesMoinesRegister.com%2Fvideonetwork%2F1655404130001%2FObama-campaign-stop-in-Des-Moines&amp;playerID=48788398001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACEa20sk~,awHVm72MyKltMOqg2JcN9xSyrh4zXV0_&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=1655404130001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DesMoinesRegister.com%2Fvideonetwork%2F1655404130001%2FObama-campaign-stop-in-Des-Moines&amp;playerID=48788398001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACEa20sk~,awHVm72MyKltMOqg2JcN9xSyrh4zXV0_&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" width=\"420\" height=\"412\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1\" flashVars=\"videoId=1655404130001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DesMoinesRegister.com%2Fvideonetwork%2F1655404130001%2FObama-campaign-stop-in-Des-Moines&amp;playerID=48788398001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACEa20sk~,awHVm72MyKltMOqg2JcN9xSyrh4zXV0_&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"videoId=1655404130001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DesMoinesRegister.com%2Fvideonetwork%2F1655404130001%2FObama-campaign-stop-in-Des-Moines&amp;playerID=48788398001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAACEa20sk~,awHVm72MyKltMOqg2JcN9xSyrh4zXV0_&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>In describing the costs and benefits of Romney&#8217;s business practices, you can tell by all I have written about them on this blog, that I would not be and am not nearly as charitable about them as President Obama is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has actually chosen a different sound bite to headline this story.\u00a0 They use Obama: Romney offers &#8216;cowpie of distortion&#8217;. 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