{"id":184795,"date":"2012-01-19T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-24\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T14:29:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/19\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot??!!??!!??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostrepublic.us\/Graphics\/DoubleFacePalm.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"380\" \/>OK, I get the optics.<\/p>\n<p>Having Obama give his nomination acceptance speech in a huge outdoor stadium, with a much louder and more enthusiastic crowd, as he did in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It gives his speech more excitement.<\/p>\n<p>I get it.<\/p>\n<p>But to give the speech in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2012\/01\/17\/terrible-optics-watch-obama-to-accept-dem-nomination-at-bank-of-america-stadium\/\"><b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Bank of America Stadium<\/span><\/b><\/a>?!?!?!?<\/p>\n<p>First, he chooses an anti-union right to work state, and now he&#8217;s testifying in an edifice named after a bank?<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just a bank.&nbsp; It&#8217;s one of the &#8220;too big to fail&#8221; banks that got billions (trillions?) in taxpayer bailouts.<\/p>\n<p>Great googly moogly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I get the optics. Having Obama give his nomination acceptance speech in a huge outdoor stadium, with a much louder and more enthusiastic crowd, as he did in 2008. It gives his speech more excitement. I get it. But to give the speech in Bank of America Stadium?!?!?!? First, he chooses an anti-union right &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1004,977,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-finance","category-presidential-campaign","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}