{"id":21795,"date":"2011-08-16T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21795"},"modified":"2011-08-16T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T16:31:18","slug":"the-question-isnt-how-dumb-are-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21795","title":{"rendered":"The Question Isn’t “How Dumb Are Liberals?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The question, rather, is “how dumb does Obama think his base actually is<\/em>?<\/p>\n

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama listed three events overseas — the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises — which set the economy back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Leave aside the fact that two out of those three bits of “bad luck” could have been avoided by scrupulously avoiding policies like Obama’s (Obama’s bobbling of Mideast policy, the gundecking of domestic oil drilling which has extended and institutionalized America’s dependence on imported oil, and the running of catastrophic debt levels), perhaps it’s a sign that Obama’s growing up; he’s stopped blaming Bush, and turned to blaming unaccountable, intangible “luck” for his administration’s failure.<\/p>\n

The question isn’t so much “is it dumb”. \u00a0The question is “why does his base fall for this claptrap?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The question, rather, is “how dumb does Obama think his base actually is? “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.” Obama listed three events overseas — the Arab Spring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795","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=21795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21798,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21795\/revisions\/21798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}