{"id":165,"date":"2012-03-27T00:34:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-03-27T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:35:15","slug":"all-mics-are-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"All Mics Are Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just like all guns are loaded.\u00a0 Assume a gun is loaded, and there won&#8217;t be any mishaps like you read about now and then.\u00a0 Likewise, all microphones are on.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t, of course, but assume they are and you won&#8217;t let the truth slip out when reporters can overhear it.\u00a0 Our president is still a rookie.\u00a0 Four years into his term, and he makes a rookie mistake a junior senator from Illinois should know not to do.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/president-obama-asks-medvedev-space-missile-defense-election-101729176--abc-news.html\">Here&#8217;s what he said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it&#8217;s important for him to give me space.<\/p>\n<p>President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So he&#8217;s saying that he&#8217;ll do a lot of stuff next year that he won&#8217;t do this year, because this is an election year and he won&#8217;t have another election.\u00a0 We all knew that, of course.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not exactly a revelation, but it&#8217;s still nice to hear it for real.\u00a0 At least he&#8217;s not going to go for three terms, as more than a few have suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like all guns are loaded.\u00a0 Assume a gun is loaded, and there won&#8217;t be any mishaps like you read about now and then.\u00a0 Likewise, all microphones are on.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t, of course, but assume they are and you won&#8217;t &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}