{"id":7552,"date":"2009-12-01T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:53:18","slug":"obamastan-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7552","title":{"rendered":"Obamastan Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re watching the speech tonight with you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/WestpointCadets_ObamaAfghanistanSpeech_120109.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ObamaAfghanastan_WestPoint_120109.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>TPM:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/12\/full-text-of-obamas-remarks-on-afghanistan.php?ref=fpa\"><em>Prepared text of Obama&#8217;s speech<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>RAW STORY:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2009\/12\/excerpts-obama-speech-afghanistan\/\">Obama orders 30k troops to Afghanistan, plans 2011 withdrawal<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>AP:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/us_us_afghanistan;_ylt=AuhfFqWpSVdDxMvYPezJm16s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNoM2J0MXYwBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjAyL3VzX3VzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDb2JhbWFhZmdoYW5p\">Obama: Afghanistan not lost, remains challenge<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>NYTimes:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/02\/world\/asia\/02prexy.html?hp\">Obama Vows to Fight Al Qaeda &#8216;Cancer&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Your thoughts, as always, are welcome in comments&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re watching the speech tonight with you&#8230; TPM: Prepared text of Obama&#8217;s speech RAW STORY: Obama orders 30k troops to Afghanistan, plans 2011 withdrawal AP: Obama: Afghanistan not lost, remains challenge NYTimes: Obama Vows to Fight Al Qaeda &#8216;Cancer&#8217; Your thoughts, as always, are welcome in comments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,239,405,115],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-open-thread"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}