{"id":14394,"date":"2008-01-28T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14394.html"},"modified":"2008-01-28T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T01:50:10","slug":"state-of-the-union-open-thread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/state-of-the-union-open-thread-2\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll be away from my desk during tonight&#8217;s address, but we&#8217;ll offer full team coverage* on the president\u2019s State of the Union address in the morning. Instead, I thought we&#8217;d mark the big occasion with a SOTU open thread. Well, maybe &#8220;big occasion&#8221; is a little strong under the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>My friends at ThinkProgress have obtained <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/01\/28\/embargoed-state-of-the-union-text-2\/\">an advance copy<\/a> of the entire text, which, if recent history is any indication, the president will adhere to closely.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who watch tonight, what\u2019d you think? Any memorable moments? Anything interesting? A general sense of relief that this is the last SOTU Bush will deliver?<\/p>\n<p>The floor is yours.<\/p>\n<p>* By &#8220;team coverage,&#8221; I mean that I&#8217;ll write some posts on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll be away from my desk during tonight&#8217;s address, but we&#8217;ll offer full team coverage* on the president\u2019s State of the Union address in the morning. Instead, I thought we&#8217;d mark the big occasion with a SOTU open thread. Well, maybe &#8220;big occasion&#8221; is a little strong under the circumstances. My friends at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}