{"id":445,"date":"2008-09-20T07:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=445"},"modified":"2008-09-20T07:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T12:20:25","slug":"a-translation-of-a-mccain-political-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/09\/20\/a-translation-of-a-mccain-political-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"A Translation of a McCain Political Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"McCain Ad With Translation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mK4q4j5JAfQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to see a helpful translation of McCain&#8217;s latest attempt to scare us.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from a Time Magazine item mentioned on <a title=\"Item on Time Magazine Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/09\/19\/itimei-new-mccain-attack_n_127670.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Huffington Post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let me stipulate: Obama&#8217;s Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn&#8217;t even mention a far more significant tie&#8211;that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama&#8217;s vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama&#8217;s principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to see a helpful translation of McCain&#8217;s latest attempt to scare us. Here is an excerpt from a Time Magazine item mentioned on Huffington Post. Let me stipulate: Obama&#8217;s Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn&#8217;t even mention a far more significant tie&#8211;that of Jim Johnson, the former [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-periodic-posts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}