{"id":8641,"date":"2012-08-20T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8641"},"modified":"2012-08-20T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:12:10","slug":"open-thread8202012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/open-thread8202012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;8\/20\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I finally got some sleep, but I still am quite tired.&#160; I\u2019m not covering the Akin story, because Nameless did so in yesterday\u2019s Open Thread.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow and Wednesday I have an echocardiogram, and a cardiac stress test, so I doubt I will have more that an Open Thread, if that.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:22 (average 5:05).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2012-08-20-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/front.moveon.org\/best-song-line-of-the-day-im-mitt-romney-lets-go-party\/?rc=daily.share\" target=\"_blank\">MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>BEST Song Line Of The Day: &#8216;I&#8217;m Mitt Romney, Let&#8217;s Go Party&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5v4PWW301JM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lets make that a sour grapes party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/election-2012\/wp\/2012\/08\/20\/report-obama-campaign-has-doubts-about-dnc-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Obama\u2019s Chicago team is not thrilled with Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0812\/79867.html\">a new ebook<\/a> from Politico\u2019s Glenn Thrush. He writes that the Florida House member \u201cgrated on Chicago\u201d from the start and Obama aides thought she \u201cstruck too harsh a partisan tone\u201d on Sunday shows. The campaign stopped scheduling her for so many TV appearances, and when she asked why, Obama staffers showed her a focus group study on Obama surrogates\u2019 effectiveness. She ranked last.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Personally, I like her and think an even harsher partisan tone is in order.&#160; This may not be the case, but it\u2019s easy to lead a focus group by the noise.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/20\/democratic-convention-adds-speakers\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>: <\/font>Prominent Democrats were added to the speakers list for the upcoming Democratic National Convention Monday, two weeks before the gathering convenes in Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p>Added Monday were Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as President Barack Obama&#8217;s chief of staff for the first two years of his presidency; Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, who won the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination; Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who acted as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee and is running for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The only one I dislike is Rahmbo,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"20cartoon\" alt=\"20cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A Todd Akin design?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got some sleep, but I still am quite tired.&#160; I\u2019m not covering the Akin story, because Nameless did so in yesterday\u2019s Open Thread.&#160; I\u2019m current with replies.&#160; Tomorrow and Wednesday I have an echocardiogram, and a cardiac stress test, so I doubt I will have more that an Open Thread, if that. Jig <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/open-thread8202012\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}