{"id":8833,"date":"2012-09-14T06:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8833"},"modified":"2012-09-14T06:17:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:17:48","slug":"open-thread9142012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/14\/open-thread9142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–9\/14\/2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the heat interfered with my sleep again, so I am pooped.  I\u2019m rushing to get this article up before my Cardiologist appointment.  I\u2019m not current with replies.  Tomorrow I hope to begin catching up.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 4:03 (average 5:16).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From MoveOn<\/a>: <\/font>Chris Rock Has A Crystal Clear Analogy For Undecided Voters<\/p>\n

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How appropriate, because the Republican Party is the cancer that afflicts this nation.<\/font><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>Romney shows no respect for diplomacy in general. He declares that \u201cGod did not create this country to be a nation of followers\u201d and maintains that \u201cin an American century, America leads the free world.\u201d [Willard delinked] His surrogates repeatedly mock President Obama\u2019s \u201capology tour\u201d and his unfortunate \u201cleading from behind\u201d formulation on Libya. His principal advisers, John Bolton and Dan Senor, are part of a neocon hard core that opposes any policy<\/a> that would diminish American sovereignty or freedom of action. Yet faced with the vexing issue of whether the Middle East should be further roiled by an Israeli attack on Iran in an attempt to stop its nuclear program, Romney is willing to outsource that decision to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

InsaniTEA! We’ve already seen what the Neocons brought us, and Netanyahu in the driver’s seat over Iran is like Hitler in the driver’s seat over Poland!<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>One day after he was roundly criticized by both parties for his comments about Libya, Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney attempted to burnish his foreign-policy credentials today, telling reporters that \u201cno one has spent more time overseas than my money has.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy money has served in banks from Switzerland to Bermuda, and from Bermuda to the Cayman Islands,\u201d Mr. Romney said. \u201cI challenge my opponent\u2019s money to equal that record of service.\u201d<\/p>\n

He does have a point. His money is far more qualified and worth far more than he is.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Yesterday the heat interfered with my sleep again, so I am pooped.  I\u2019m rushing to get this article up before my Cardiologist appointment.  I\u2019m not current with replies.  Tomorrow I hope to begin catching up. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 4:03 (average 5:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? Short Takes: […]<\/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-8833","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\/8833","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=8833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}