{"id":274,"date":"2008-09-09T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-09-09T20:56:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T01:56:10","slug":"obamas-voting-present-does-not-mean-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/09\/obamas-voting-present-does-not-mean-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Voting &#8220;Present&#8221; Does Not Mean &#8220;Maybe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Explanation of the &quot;Present&quot; Vote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chicago\/chi-zorn-09-sep09,0,7209096.column\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> where <span id=\"columnist-story-name\" class=\"clearfix\">Eric Zorn explains in a Chicago Tribune article what a &#8220;present&#8221; vote by Barack Obama in the Illinois Legislature really means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Again, Sarah Palin, takes a cheap shot with a Big Lie.\u00a0 To be most charitable one might say she is spouting off again about subjects she knows nothing about. It is further proof that one refutation of a big lie is not enough.\u00a0 We have to refute over and over again.\u00a0 It also shows why I like to keep links to these refutations.\u00a0 With McCain\/Palin, you know that one refutation is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to take my own suggestion and develop a graphic Lieometer to use with all comments about the McCain\/Palin strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RichardH for finding the above link to give credence to my explanation to him of the meaning of the &#8220;Present&#8221; vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link where Eric Zorn explains in a Chicago Tribune article what a &#8220;present&#8221; vote by Barack Obama in the Illinois Legislature really means. Again, Sarah Palin, takes a cheap shot with a Big Lie.\u00a0 To be most charitable one might say she is spouting off again about subjects she knows nothing about. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[146,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"tag-lies","8":"tag-politics","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}