{"id":2065,"date":"2008-02-04T04:02:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2008-02-04T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T12:10:57","slug":"like-a-ken-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"Like A Ken Doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Reding gives one of <a href=\"http:\/\/jayreding.com\/archives\/2008\/02\/01\/the-banality-of-hope\/\">the most complete shreddings of Barack Obama<\/a> out there.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&#038;post=2062\">complimented Obama&#8217;s communication style<\/a>, it is just that &#8211; style.  Reding closes that circle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ultimately, what makes Obama so troubling is that he\u2019s putting out the political equivalent of junk food. His silky-smooth and tasteful rhetoric is ultimately full of calories, but has no nutritional value. A President must make hard decisions. They must not only talk about \u201cchange\u201d but about facing down the real issues that effect the lives of voters. The American public deserves something more than smooth talk\u2014they deserve real and substantive answers. Will Barack Obama continue to govern along the same far-left liberal lines as he has voted in the Senate? How will Barack Obama deal with the threat of terrorism? How will he deal with the impending insolvency of Medicare and Social Security? Talking about \u201cchange\u201d is not an answer. Saying \u201cyes we can\u201d is not an answer. The American people deserve real substance, and Senator Obama is feeding us empty calories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>America has an obesity problem &#8211; intellectually as well as physically.  This nation <em>loves <\/em>empty calories.   Jesse Ventura was an Almond Joy, if you catch my drift &#8211; and we all know how <em>that <\/em>turned out.  Obama is like a Three Musketeers bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Reding gives one of the most complete shreddings of Barack Obama out there. While I&#8217;ve complimented Obama&#8217;s communication style, it is just that &#8211; style. Reding closes that circle: Ultimately, what makes Obama so troubling is that he\u2019s putting out the political equivalent of junk food. His silky-smooth and tasteful rhetoric is ultimately full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}