{"id":4872,"date":"2012-05-29T08:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2012-05-29T08:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:56:34","slug":"liar-liar-romneys-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/liar-liar-romneys-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Liar, liar, Romney&#8217;s on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/romneys-distortions-about-obama-do-us-a-disservice\/2012\/05\/28\/gJQA9JuTxU_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Romney\u2019s distortions about Obama do us a disservice &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<h5>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/eugene-robinson\/2011\/02\/24\/ABPAwVN_page.html\">Eugene Robinson<\/a>, Published: May 28 The Washington Post<\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Even by this lax standard, Romney too often fails. Not to put too fine a point on it, he lies. Quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history,\u201d Romney claims on his campaign Web site. This is utterly false. The truth is that spending has <em>slowed<\/em> markedly under Obama.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/romneys-distortions-about-obama-do-us-a-disservice\/2012\/05\/28\/gJQA9JuTxU_story.html?wprss=rss_eugene-robinson\">Romney\u2019s distortions about Obama do us a disservice &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romney\u2019s distortions about Obama do us a disservice &#8211; The Washington Post By Eugene Robinson, Published: May 28 The Washington Post Even by this lax standard, Romney too often fails. Not to put too fine a point on it, he lies. Quite a bit. \u201cSince President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/liar-liar-romneys-on-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liar, liar, Romney&#8217;s on fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}