{"id":623,"date":"2006-05-14T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/05\/14\/obama_delivers_\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:15:52","slug":"obama_delivers_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/05\/14\/obama_delivers_\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Delivers Gingrich\u2019s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can get the full text of Sen. Barrack Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-ap-il-obama,1,149453.story?coll=chi-news-hed \">speech to Emily\u2019s List last week<\/a>, let me know.  He invoked former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said if he were a Democrat, his message would be \u201cHad enough?\u201d  I only saw part of the speech on CSPAN.  The senator delivered a well crafted overall message for Democrats.  Missing, of course, is what he would do instead.  That still needs to be answered, but this was nice positioning.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Speaking of Gingrich, his appearance this morning on \u201cMeet the Press\u201d reconfirmed for me just how overrated Tim Russert is, and why lazy reporters are a real challenge for those who want to deliver a different message.  Russert lives for the \u201cgotcha\u201d moment.  Many reporters do, and consequently, they don\u2019t listen.  Like Russert, they have a list of questions they ask and never bother to listen and challenge many statements.  <\/p>\n<p>When asked about the NSA collecting phone records, Gingrich started off by saying that first of all, the collection is legal.  He then went on to make his point that Americans support such invasions of privacy to be secure.  Russert then quoted Gingrich to try to catch him in a contradiction.  But not about the legality of the records collection.  It is by no means clear that what this administration did is legal, but Russert never challenged him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can get the full text of Sen. Barrack Obama\u2019s speech to Emily\u2019s List last week, let me know. He invoked former Speaker Newt Gingrich, who said if he were a Democrat, his message would be \u201cHad enough?\u201d I only saw part of the speech on CSPAN. The senator delivered a well crafted overall&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/05\/14\/obama_delivers_\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}