{"id":1046,"date":"2012-08-11T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T13:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2012-08-11T13:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T13:16:21","slug":"romneys-running-mate-paul-ryan-attacks-obamas-economic-record-of-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan attacks Obama’s economic ‘record of failure’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Appearing for the first time as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is attacking President Barack Obama for what he calls a “record of failure.”<\/p>\n

The seven-term congressman says Obama has led the “worst economic recovery in 70 years.” He notes that unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years – the longest stretch since the Great Depression.<\/p>\n

He spoke in remarks prepared for delivery at the first public appearance of the new GOP ticket.<\/p>\n

Ryan, the architect of a controversial budget plan, is promising not to “duck the tough issues.” And he says he has the courage to tell the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Appearing for the first time as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan is attacking President Barack Obama for what he calls a “record of failure.” The seven-term congressman says Obama has led the “worst economic recovery in 70 years.” He notes that unemployment has been above 8 percent for … Continue reading “Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan attacks Obama’s economic ‘record of failure’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[744,158,13,90,743,745],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-economic-policy","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obama","tag-paul-ryan","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}