{"id":28814,"date":"2012-08-07T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28814"},"modified":"2012-08-07T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:10:10","slug":"politics-from-2012-08-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/politics-from-2012-08-06.html","title":{"rendered":"Politics from 2012-08-06"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Only just over 90 days to go until the election. Can’t happen soon enough.<\/p>\n

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  1. Get out the vote? Or get rid of the vote?<\/a>\u00a0– The remarkably bald-faced Romney campaign lie about servicepeople, the vote, and Ohio.<\/li>\n
  2. Mitt, taxes, and hypocrisy<\/a>\u00a0– For a guy adamant that he’s not releasing any earlier than last year’s tax forms, Romney has sure gone after previous opponents for not releasing their<\/em> taxes.<\/li>\n
  3. Is Obama shunning Israel?<\/a>\u00a0– Obama comes under fire for not visiting Israel during his first term. But … how many presidents have?<\/li>\n
  4. The Myth of the Democratic Majority<\/a>\u00a0– For all one can critique Obama for in his first term, the idea that he had a solid Democratic majority in Congress that would do his will between 2009-2010 is an example of short-term memory loss on the Left.<\/li>\n
  5. Religious Right lambastes Romney for not getting involved the Chick-fil-A kerfuffle<\/a>\u00a0– Will it keep anyone home in November, though?<\/li>\n
  6. Here we go again<\/a>\u00a0– Yet another “Personhood” amendment in Colorado. \u00a0I don’t expect this one to get any further than the previous two attempts, but I suspect its main reason is to turn out more conservative voters in November.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Only just over 90 days to go until the election. Can’t happen soon enough. Get out the vote? Or get rid of the vote?\u00a0– The remarkably bald-faced Romney campaign lie about servicepeople, the vote, and Ohio. Mitt, taxes, and hypocrisy\u00a0– For a guy adamant that he’s not releasing any earlier than last year’s tax forms, … Continue reading “Politics from 2012-08-06”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[109,99,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31161,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/free-marketeers-for-obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":28814,"position":0},"title":"Free marketeers for Obama","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-12 7:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Their reasons are sort of backhanded, but interesting nonetheless.The Economist: \"Obama\u2019s shortcomings have left ample room for a pragmatic Republican, especially one who could balance the books and overhaul government. 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