{"id":208,"date":"2013-05-18T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/18\/now-the-economy-is-a-plus-for-potus"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:01:00","slug":"now-the-economy-is-a-plus-for-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Now the economy is a plus for POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>No doubt about it, President Obama has had a tough week.<\/p>\n<p>His emphasis now shifts to what Republicans once thought would end his presidency: the economy.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/300545-obama-shifts-focus-to-economy\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/300545-obama-shifts-focus-to-economy\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/300545-obama-shifts-focus-to-economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting how fortunes can turn and how bad news becomes good news, and how one can turn a perceived weakness into a perceived strength.<\/p>\n<p>GOP critics had been yammering all through the 2012 election cycle about how the economy was dragging everything \u2013 and everyone \u2013 into the dumps. Joblessness was too high; new job creation was much too slow; that deficit was going to bankrupt the country; we were \u201coutsourcing\u201d jobs to places like China and India.<\/p>\n<p>Then what? Unemployment has kept ticking downward. Job creation is starting to accelerate. The deficit is now \u201cdown\u201d to something on the order of $600 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Those \u201cscandals\u201d involving the IRS, Benghazi and the Associated Press phone records appear as of today to be contained. Obama now is turning his sights toward the economy to (1) divert people\u2019s attention from the embarrassing missteps and (2) perhaps lift our spirits just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t the Republican opposition tell us the economy would be Barack Obama\u2019s downfall? At this rate, it might be his salvation. Imagine that.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it, President Obama has had a tough week. His emphasis now shifts to what Republicans once thought would end his presidency: the economy. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/300545-obama-shifts-focus-to-economy Interesting how fortunes can turn and how bad news becomes good news, and how one can turn a perceived weakness into a perceived strength. GOP critics had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now the economy is a plus for POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}