{"id":2078,"date":"2012-05-25T05:25:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2012-05-25T05:25:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:25:19","slug":"obama-calls-romney-speech-a-cow-pie-of-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/obama-calls-romney-speech-a-cow-pie-of-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama calls Romney speech a cow pie of distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking directly to Iowans, Obama used local lingo to slam Romney: \u201cGovernor Romney came to Des Moines last week and warned of a prairie fire of debt,\u201d he said. \u201cBut he left out some facts. His speech was more like a cow pie of distortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he quipped, \u201cI don\u2019t know whose record he twisted the most \u2013 mine or his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama warned his supporters that this race would be tougher than 2008 and argued that he represents the future and Romney the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We dont need another political fight about ending womens right to choose or getting rid of Planned Parenthood,&#8221; Mr. Obama said as the crowd erupted into cheers.The president portrayed the event as a homecoming \u2013 Iowa helped launch Mr. Obamas campaign in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/05\/24\/11868714-obama-calls-romney-speech-a-cow-pie-of-distortion?lite\">First Read &#8211; Obama calls Romney speech a cow pie of distortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking directly to Iowans, Obama used local lingo to slam Romney: \u201cGovernor Romney came to Des Moines last week and warned of a prairie fire of debt,\u201d he said. \u201cBut he left out some facts. His speech was more like a cow pie of distortion.\u201d Then he quipped, \u201cI don\u2019t know whose record he twisted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22,20],"tags":[1222,1220,1221,42,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}