{"id":1053,"date":"2008-09-17T13:33:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2008-09-17T13:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:33:42","slug":"breaking-through-the-fog-barack-obamas-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Through the Fog: Barack Obama’s Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/em> reported on the struggle Obama<\/a> is facing trying to break through the media fog that has focused on the small daily controversies the McCain camp keeps feeding the press. From Lipstick on a Pig<\/a> to questions of patriotism and the never used Logan Act<\/a>, this is the McCain camp’s deliberate strategy<\/a> – distract and hope that by the time people start paying attention to the issues, it will be too late.<\/p>\n

Given the financial crisis unfolding, and in an attempt to break through this fog, Obama released this simple ad – just two minutes of Obama speaking to the camera.<\/p>\n

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The Plan<\/a> he asks you to check out is here.<\/p>\n

Excerpts from his original speech<\/a> on the subject a year ago today is here.<\/p>\n

His follow-up speech<\/a> as the crisis began to deepen this March is here.<\/p>\n

My summary of his broad economic agenda<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n

The New York Times’ attempt to understand the underpinning of “Obamanomics”<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n

Some lies being spread about Obama’s tax plan<\/a> and economic issues are here. The ad McCain released echoing these lies<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times reported on the struggle Obama is facing trying to break through the media fog that has focused on the small daily controversies the McCain camp keeps feeding the press. From Lipstick on a Pig to questions of patriotism and the never used Logan Act, this is the McCain camp’s deliberate strategy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[544,22,45,6,4,66,44],"tags":[130,778],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-election-2008","category-mccain","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-media","category-videos","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-plan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-gZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}