{"id":12576,"date":"2012-03-06T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12576"},"modified":"2012-03-06T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:14:15","slug":"aside-from-the-bad-manners-this-is-just-tacky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12576","title":{"rendered":"Aside From The Bad Manners&#8211;This Is Just Tacky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2012\/03\/obama-schedules-distracting-press-conference-middle-super-tuesday\/49493\/\">The Atlantic Wire<\/a>\u00a0posted a story\u00a0yesterday about President Obama&#8217;s scheduled press conference today. This is the President&#8217;s first press conference in five months, and it just happens to fall on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>The article reminds us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>USA Today speculates that the topic(s) will be Iran and Israel. Or the economy. Or the GOP race itself. But that&#8217;s all beside the spotlight-swiping point. We saw Obama create a similar scheduling conflict last Tuesday, during the Michigan and Arizona primaries, when he gave a chest-trumping speech to UAW workers. (A speech that, Carney insisted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2012\/02\/28\/carney_obamas_speech_to_uaw_was_not_at_all_a_campaign_speech.html\">was &#8220;not at all&#8221; a campaign speech<\/a>, even though no one\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2012\/02\/obama-attacks-romney-uaw\/49260\/\">including us<\/a>\u2014treated it as such.) Then again, it&#8217;s not like the president hasn&#8217;t shown a willingness to step aside and let his rivals have the stage: In August the White House announced a major jobs speech\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2011\/08\/obama-puts-joint-session-jobs-speech-against-republican-debate\/41951\/\">scheduled against a Republican debate<\/a>,\u00a0but later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/politics\/2011\/08\/obamas-risky-scheduling-conflict\/41968\/\">rescheduled<\/a> it. That was nice of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is just bad manners on the part of President Obama. He just can&#8217;t stand the idea of the Republicans actually having the spotlight for a day unless he controls the narrative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=8ac1fbf4-ff17-44e5-a9fb-c2dbeefc3832\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic Wire\u00a0posted a story\u00a0yesterday about President Obama&#8217;s scheduled press conference today. This is the President&#8217;s first press conference in five months, and it just happens to fall on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the Republican primary. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,2363,365,2362,285,211],"class_list":["post-12576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-president-obamas-press-conference","tag-republicans","tag-super-tuesday","tag-united-states","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12577,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12576\/revisions\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}