{"id":197074,"date":"2008-03-04T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/04\/another-twist-in-goolsbee-canada-saga\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:33:00","slug":"another-twist-in-goolsbee-canada-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/04\/another-twist-in-goolsbee-canada-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Twist in Goolsbee\/Canada Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the sequence of events was rather different from what I had originally thought.  Spefically, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/03\/04\/america\/NA-GEN-Canada-Democrats-Trade.php\">the Canadian consulate contacted Goolsbee and asked him questions<\/a>, to which he responded.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently did the same with Clinton&#8217;s and McCain&#8217;s economics gurus, and then they wrote up the responses and forwarded them upstairs, but once they reached the political levels of government *cough* right winger Canadian PM Steven Harper *cough*, they were leaked to do damage, because Harper Bush&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">other<\/span> poodle.<\/p>\n<p>Goolsbee is largely blameless in this, though I&#8217;m not sure how much that means in presidential politics in the US.  He still needs to stay away from the media for a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the sequence of events was rather different from what I had originally thought. Spefically, it appears that the Canadian consulate contacted Goolsbee and asked him questions, to which he responded. They apparently did the same with Clinton&#8217;s and McCain&#8217;s economics gurus, and then they wrote up the responses and forwarded them upstairs, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1016,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-international-commerce","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197074"}],"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=197074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}