{"id":870,"date":"2012-07-30T10:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=870"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:01:51","slug":"bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/30\/bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton Gets Prime-Time Convention Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton is slated to deliver a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention in September, and will place President Obama&#8217;s name into nomination, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/bill-clinton-to-have-marquee-role-at-democratic-convention.html?_r=1&amp;ref=politics\"><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/30\/us\/politics\/bill-clinton-to-have-marquee-role-at-democratic-convention.html?_r=1&amp;ref=politics\">The New York Times reports<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There isn&#8217;t anybody on the planet who has a greater perspective on not just the last four years, but the last two decades, than Bill Clinton,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d David Axelrod, a top adviser to the Obama campaign, told <em>The Times<\/em>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He can really articulate the choice that is before people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton has diverged with Obama at times during the campaign season. He has said that he would recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jun\/05\/news\/la-pn-bill-clinton-breaks-with-obama-supports-bush-tax-cuts-20120605\">temporarily extending<\/a> all the Bush-era tax cuts (Obama is seeking an extension for income up to $250,000) and also had praise for Mitt Romney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time as the CEO of Bain Capital, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/2012\/05\/clinton-romneys-business-record-sterling-124980.html\">calling his record \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsterling.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> In each of those cases Clinton walked back those assertions.<\/p>\n<p>                                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-conventions\/bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech-20120730\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Homepage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-conventions\/bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech-20120730\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-conventions\/bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech-20120730<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton is slated to deliver a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention in September, and will place President Obama&#8217;s name into nomination, The New York Times reports. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There isn&#8217;t anybody on the planet who has a greater perspective on not just the last four years, but the last two decades, than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/07\/30\/bill-clinton-gets-prime-time-convention-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Clinton Gets Prime-Time Convention Speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,6,293],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-homepage","tag-ifttt","tag-jonathan-miller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-e2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}