{"id":12119,"date":"2012-08-24T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:21:19","slug":"what-is-mitt-romney-implying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/24\/what-is-mitt-romney-implying\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mitt Romney Implying?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received the following email:<\/p>\n

Steven —<\/p>\n

Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, just said this:<\/p>\n

“No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”<\/p>\n

Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s actually saying, and what it says about Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Messina<\/p>\n

Jim Messina
\nCampaign Manager
\nObama for America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe this gedankenexperiment (In German – an experiment carried out in thought only) suggested by Jim Messina belongs in a category with my previous post Why Do Republicans Celebrate Labor Day?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

See, my science\/engineering education wasn’t completely wasted.\u00a0 This is where I learned the phrase “gedanken experiment” or just plain “gedanken”.\u00a0 I bet it cost less than $15,000 in tuition, for all my years as a college undergraduate.\u00a0 See how great inflation is for making your past debts shrink to insignificance?\u00a0 I think we could use a little of that right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received the following email: Steven — Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president of the United States, just said this: “No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.” Take a moment or two to think about that, what he’s […]<\/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-12119","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\/12119","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=12119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}