{"id":8549,"date":"2009-03-22T11:34:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8549"},"modified":"2009-03-22T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T22:18:05","slug":"barack-obama-seems-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8549","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Seems Serious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He presents himself as a man with gravitas. But when he talks, he reveals himself as shallow. He doesn&#8217;t take ideas seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.townhall.com\/TalkRadio\/Show.aspx?RadioShowID=3&amp;ContentGuid=6b39dca9-8753-4a2b-a12a-c038720fea86\">Dennis Prager says<\/a> the Wall Street bonuses, AIG bonuses, are despicable but you can&#8217;t pass a law to tax a specific group.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s no response from the President. That&#8217;s scarier than the act itself.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Leno said it was scary that you could tax a group of people just because you are angry at him.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama said he bowled a 129&#8230; &quot;It was like Special Olympics.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s had to apologize for saying that. Why is that line offensive?<\/p>\n<p>Are we supposed to hide that Special Olympics are for people with disabilities? He&#8217;s not mocking those with disabilities. He&#8217;s mocking himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He presents himself as a man with gravitas. But when he talks, he reveals himself as shallow. He doesn&#8217;t take ideas seriously. Dennis Prager says the Wall Street bonuses, AIG bonuses, are despicable but you can&#8217;t pass a law to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8549\">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":[1569,4],"tags":[30239,29761,2022,16920,16916],"class_list":["post-8549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-dennis-prager","tag-barack-obama","tag-dennis-prager","tag-jay-leno","tag-special-olympics","tag-wall-street-bonuses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549","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=8549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}