{"id":4442,"date":"2012-05-14T19:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2012-05-14T19:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:16:53","slug":"from-theweeklystandard-obama-attacks-private-equity-raises-funds-from-private-equity-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/from-theweeklystandard-obama-attacks-private-equity-raises-funds-from-private-equity-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"(from TheWeeklyStandard)  &#8216;Obama Attacks Private Equity, Raises Funds from Private Equity Leaders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong>\u00a0 President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s largest private equity fund businesses,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/our-businesses\/aam\/private-equity\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to its website<\/a>&#8230;But ironically, Obama today is using Mitt Romney&#8217;s background in private equity as the basis of an attack on his Republican rival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO READ THE STORY, CLICK THE PIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-attacks-private-equity-raises-funds-private-equity-leaders_644470.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4443\" title=\"OBAMA-WS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/OBAMA-WS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS, CLICK &#8216;THE ZEPHYR&#8217; AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/obama-attacks-private-equity-raises-funds-private-equity-leaders_644470.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is &#8220;one of the world&#8217;s largest private equity fund businesses,&#8221; according to its website&#8230;But ironically, Obama today is using Mitt Romney&#8217;s background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}