{"id":14621,"date":"2010-10-23T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14621"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:31:04","slug":"obama-at-northrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14621","title":{"rendered":"Obama At Northrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama spoke at Northrup Auditorium to a crowd of about 11,000 people today.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/files\/images\/library\/024%5B1%5D.jpg\" alt=\"This is Lenin, speaking to the Communist Party Congress.  It has nothing to do whatsoever with todays pep rally for Lord Fauntelroy.  Pure coincidence, honestly.\" width=\"437\" height=\"311\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Lenin, speaking to the Communist Party Congress.  It has nothing to do whatsoever with today&#39;s pep rally for Lord Fauntelroy.  Pure coincidence, honestly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s 9,000 fewer than Bill Clinton drew.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Clinton Packed The 19,000-Seat Target Center. \u201cPresident Clinton used to refer politely to Bob Dole as \u2018my opponent.\u2019 But over the last two days, Clinton has stopped doing even that, and in what appears to be an act of supreme confidence, he barely acknowledges that he is facing any opposition at all in this reelection campaign. At a boisterous rally that packed the 19,000-seat Target Center arena here yesterday, Clinton tried to ride above partisan politics just a week before the election.\u201d (Brian McGrory, \u201cBuoyed By Polls, Clinton Tunes Out Dole; Campaign &#8217;96 \/ The Incumbent,\u201d The Boston Globe, 10\/29\/96)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Dayton, seen in public for the first time in a week, apparently stood by attentively&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov.on.ca\/english\/on-line-exhibits\/mould\/pics\/19346_soldier_with_gun_520.jpg\" alt=\"Not Mark Dayton\" width=\"365\" height=\"518\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not Mark Dayton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;while the President &#8220;helped him&#8221; by cheerleading for&#8230;the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.historyplace.com\/unitedstates\/pacificwar\/265.jpg\" alt=\"A Japanese plane, shot down by antiaircraft fire, plunges to the sea in flames.  What, you think Im using this as a metaphor?  Get a life!\" width=\"329\" height=\"237\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Japanese plane, shot down by antiaircraft fire, plunges to the sea in flames.  What, you think I&#39;m using this as a metaphor?  Don&#39;t be all paranoid!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dayton&#8217;s campaign has apparently figured out that their best bet is to keep Dayton <em>out <\/em>of the public eye, and away from things like microphones and cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors that he&#8217;s been in hiding with Betty McCollum are strictly unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/everseradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/ship-sinking.gif\" alt=\"Being from North Dakota, the sea fascinates me.  What, you think Im writing about the Alita Messinger camp...er, Mark Dayton campaign?  No, no no no.  No relation.\" width=\"360\" height=\"193\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being from North Dakota, the sea fascinates me.  What, you think I&#39;m writing about the Alita Messinger camp...er, Mark Dayton campaign?  No, no no no.  No relation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wish I coulda been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama spoke at Northrup Auditorium to a crowd of about 11,000 people today. That&#8217;s 9,000 fewer than Bill Clinton drew. Clinton Packed The 19,000-Seat Target Center. \u201cPresident Clinton used to refer politely to Bob Dole as \u2018my opponent.\u2019 But over the last two days, Clinton has stopped doing even that, and in what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-14621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","tag-mn-cd4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14621"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23822,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14621\/revisions\/23822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}