{"id":390602,"date":"2010-03-04T22:15:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70734"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:15:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:15:01","slug":"blanche-lincoln%e2%80%99s-new-ad-says-she-didn%e2%80%99t-vote-for-bank-bailout-%e2%80%93-but-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390602","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln\u2019s New Ad Says She Didn\u2019t Vote for Bank Bailout \u2013 But She Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"275\" height=\"223\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DDopnb1H_Zg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DDopnb1H_Zg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"275\" height=\"223\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s new Arkansas primary ad is, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/04\/blanche-lincolns-genius-pitch-to-arkansas-democrats-i-opposed-the-public-option-also-democrats-suck\/\">as BT says<\/a>, so politically tone deaf it&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone thought it was a good idea.  In it, she tries to distance herself from all the partisan bickering in DC, and says &#8220;I voted against giving more money to Wall Street.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Blanche Lincoln voted for TARP in 2008. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00213\">Bush&#8217;s TARP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Repressed memory, maybe?<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/2010-elections\/\" rel=\"tag\">2010 Election<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/ar-sen\/\" rel=\"tag\">AR-Sen<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/arkansas\/\" rel=\"tag\">Arkansas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/blanche-lincoln\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/campaign-lies\/\" rel=\"tag\">campaign lies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/george-w-bush\/\" rel=\"tag\">George W. Bush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/hypocrisy\/\" rel=\"tag\">hypocrisy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/political-advertising\/\" rel=\"tag\">political advertising<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/senate\/\" rel=\"tag\">Senate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/tarp\/\" rel=\"tag\">TARP<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fdlaction.firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70734&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70734\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s new Arkansas primary ad is, as BT says, so politically tone deaf it&#8217;s hard to imagine anyone thought it was a good idea. In it, she tries to distance herself from all the partisan bickering in DC, and says &#8220;I voted against giving more money to Wall Street.&#8221; But Blanche Lincoln voted for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}