{"id":31154,"date":"2012-10-18T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31154"},"modified":"2012-10-18T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:49:47","slug":"dumbing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31154","title":{"rendered":"Dumbing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on Twitter, I <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/258728697559920641\">twote<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;Binders&#8221; is so Big Bird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This morning on\u00a0<em>Hot Air<\/em>, Ed points out that Mark Halperin &#8211; no conservative tool, he &#8211; points out the same thing at greater length; we&#8217;re under three weeks to the election, and Obama is still trying to pin his hopes on sophomoric &#8220;gotchas&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgIaw0MeLJc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Ed notes, it&#8217;s a sign of political exhaustion from a campaign that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;won\u2019t run on his agenda, because he either doesn\u2019t have one (and he certainly hasn\u2019t published one or pushed it at either debate, choosing to attack Romney instead), or because, as Mickey Kaus writes, any honesty about his second-term agenda would cost him the election<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Binders!<\/p>\n<p>Big Bird!<\/p>\n<p>Contraception!<\/p>\n<p>Squirrel!<\/p>\n<p>Bonus question: \u00a0If Obama loses &#8211; and if Alita Messinger&#8217;s similar campaign ends up falling short of flipping the legislature and bogging down both Constitutional Amendments here in Minnesota &#8211; do you suppose the Dems will re-evaluate their strategy of the past few years of going all-in for the low-information voter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on Twitter, I twote\u00a0&#8220;Binders&#8221; is so Big Bird.&#8221; This morning on\u00a0Hot Air, Ed points out that Mark Halperin &#8211; no conservative tool, he &#8211; points out the same thing at greater length; we&#8217;re under three weeks to the election, and Obama is still trying to pin his hopes on sophomoric &#8220;gotchas&#8221;: As Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,121,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-campaign-14","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154","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=31154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31158,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31154\/revisions\/31158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}