{"id":194920,"date":"2008-08-08T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/08\/obama-campaign-uses-l-word\/"},"modified":"2008-08-08T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T22:40:00","slug":"obama-campaign-uses-l-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/08\/obama-campaign-uses-l-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Uses &#8220;L&#8221; Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally.  The Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/08\/obama_camp_mccains_latest_cele.php\">used the word &#8220;lie&#8221; to describe McCain&#8217;s latest ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People in Washington hate the term, but who cares, the electorate appreciates &#8220;straight talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From Obama spokesperson Hari Sevugan:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>This ad is a lie, and it&#8217;s part of the old, tired politics of a party in Washington that has run out of ideas and run out of steam. Even though a host of independent, nonpartisan organizations have said this attack isn&#8217;t true, Senator McCain continues to lie about Senator Obama&#8217;s plan to give 95% of all families a tax cut of $1,000, and not raise taxes for those making under $250,000 a single dime. The reason so many families are hurting today is because we&#8217;ve had eight years of failed Bush policies that Senator McCain wants to continue for another four, and that&#8217;s what Barack Obama will change as President.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally. The Obama has used the word &#8220;lie&#8221; to describe McCain&#8217;s latest ad. People in Washington hate the term, but who cares, the electorate appreciates &#8220;straight talk.&#8221; From Obama spokesperson Hari Sevugan: This ad is a lie, and it&#8217;s part of the old, tired politics of a party in Washington that has run out of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194920"}],"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=194920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}