{"id":16174,"date":"2012-11-02T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16174"},"modified":"2012-11-02T12:32:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:32:30","slug":"the-las-vegas-review-journal-weighs-in-on-the-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16174","title":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Review-Journal Weighs In On The Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Las Vegas Review-Journal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a> posted an editorial yesterday strongly criticizing President Obama for his handling of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benghazi\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.1166666667,20.0666666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.1166666667,20.0666666667 (Benghazi)&amp;t=h\" rel=\"geolocation\" target=\"_blank\">Benghazi<\/a> attack when it happened and his lying about it afterward.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to criticism of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> foreign policy, the editorial reminds us:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy &#8211; though a more careful analysis shows what can only be a perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity. Back in January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, &#8220;If somebody wants to build a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fossil-fuel power station\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fossil-fuel_power_station\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">coal-fired power plant<\/a>, they can. It&#8217;s just that it will bankrupt them.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Under my plan &#8230; electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.&#8221; It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama&#8217;s future <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Secretary of Energy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Secretary_of_Energy\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Secretary<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Steven Chu\" href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/contributors\/secretary-energy-dr-steven-chu\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Chu<\/a>, famously said it would be necessary to &#8220;figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Europe\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">Europe<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; $9 a gallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Candidate Obama said if he couldn&#8217;t fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Willard Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/mitt-romney-241055\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it&#8217;s time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Halloween\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/halloween\" rel=\"historycom\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a> is over, but I can&#8217;t think of a worse nightmare than four more years of President Obama.<\/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\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=00ac2a56-ff4e-4406-bc2f-5e1b5d842bee\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Vegas Review-Journal posted an editorial yesterday strongly criticizing President Obama for his handling of the Benghazi attack when it happened and his lying about it afterward. In addition to criticism of President Obama&#8217;s foreign policy, the editorial reminds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=16174\">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":[3932,117,3947,4303,4301,352,562,4302,639],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barackobama","tag-benghazi","tag-halloween","tag-las-vegas-review-journal","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obama","tag-san-francisco-chronicle","tag-steven-chu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","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=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16176,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}