{"id":25234,"date":"2012-01-05T05:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25234"},"modified":"2012-01-05T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:16:29","slug":"is-there-any-other-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25234","title":{"rendered":"Is There Any Other Kind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of Barack Obama’s campaign to keep Americans from asking themselves the vital question “are you better off now than you were four years ago?”, they’re getting back to an oldie but goodie – one that’s been more or less on the sidelines since the end of the Healthcare debate;\u00a0how anyone opposing Obama is some sort of “extremist” or another<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In keeping with its previous line of attack, the Obama campaign’s manager Jim Messina said in a statement that the “extremist Tea Party agenda won a clear victory” shortly after the results were announced early Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“No matter who the Republicans nominate, we’ll be running against someone who has embraced that agenda in order to win — vowing to let Wall Street write its own rules, end Medicare as we know it, roll back gay rights, leave the troops in Iraq indefinitely, restrict a woman’s right to choose, and gut Social Security to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This from the administration that spent all fall using Social Security funding as a political football.<\/p>\n

Messina also warned of “unprecedented” spending by outside groups on campaign ads and urged the president’s supporters to step up donations and on-the-ground organizing ahead of the November vote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And remember – BOO! \u00a0Extremists are around every corner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of Barack Obama’s campaign to keep Americans from asking themselves the vital question “are you better off now than you were four years ago?”, they’re getting back to an oldie but goodie – one that’s been more or less on the sidelines since the end of the Healthcare debate;\u00a0how anyone opposing Obama is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234","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=25234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25267,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions\/25267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}