{"id":29096,"date":"2011-01-25T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=29096"},"modified":"2011-01-25T22:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:24:08","slug":"obama-falls-flat-in-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=29096","title":{"rendered":"Obama Falls Flat In State Of The Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s inaugural address was a similar uninspiring mess.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EaN_dl952Yg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/01\/25\/krauthammer-underwhelmed-by-obama-vision-in-sotu-address-late-clintonian-minimalism\/#ixzz1C7UovzQJ\">DailyCaller.com says<\/a>: If President Barack Obama was aiming for a \u201cthis is our generation\u2019s Sputnik moment,\u201d he aimed too low according to Fox News Channel\u2019s Charles Krauthammer.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following Obama\u2019s State of the Union address Tuesday, the syndicated columnist and FNC regular explained he was underwhelmed by the speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also struck by the line, \u2018We do big things,\u2019\u201d Krauthammer said. \u201cBut what was so ironic about this speech and what was wrong with it was that the content of the speech entirely undermined that. He said \u2018we do big things.\u2019 And all he recommended, all in the laundry list, the first half of the speech was all the things that government was going to do was small ball. It was like late Clintonian minimalism about high-speed rail, more spending on roads and solar shingles. I mean look, that\u2019s not the Apollo program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s inaugural address was a similar uninspiring mess. DailyCaller.com says: If President Barack Obama was aiming for a \u201cthis is our generation\u2019s Sputnik moment,\u201d he aimed too low according to Fox News Channel\u2019s Charles Krauthammer. Immediately following Obama\u2019s State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=29096\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,11912],"tags":[25279,4948,24567,9083,25278,25277],"class_list":["post-29096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-charles-krauthammer","tag-apollo-program","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-high-speed-rail","tag-laundry-list","tag-solar-shingles","tag-state-of-the-union-address"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}