{"id":22030,"date":"2011-08-30T05:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22030"},"modified":"2011-08-28T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:47:37","slug":"hammers-get-the-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=22030","title":{"rendered":"Hammers Get The Nod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Fleming asks &#8220;who&#8217;d be a better president &#8211; Obama or a sack of hammers?&#8221;, and reaches a conclusion&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overall<\/p>\n<p>Taking all these areas into consideration, it\u2019s pretty easy to see that a sack of hammers would be a much better president than Obama. This isn\u2019t to say that Obama is dumber than a sack of hammers \u2014 a ridiculous assertion \u2014 it\u2019s just to say that he\u2019s much worse at being a president than one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">&#8230;that would surprise nobody that is really paying attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;\">Of course, this is all hypothetical, as you\u2019ll never find a sack of hammers with the fire in the belly necessary to both run for president and win. Perhaps that\u2019s a problem in our system of democracy that someone like a sack of hammers, who would be an above average to great president, could never be elected.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/comparing-obamas-performance-in-office-with-that-of-a-sack-of-hammers\/?singlepage=true\">the reasoning that led to the conclusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Fleming asks &#8220;who&#8217;d be a better president &#8211; Obama or a sack of hammers?&#8221;, and reaches a conclusion&#8230; Overall Taking all these areas into consideration, it\u2019s pretty easy to see that a sack of hammers would be a much better president than Obama. This isn\u2019t to say that Obama is dumber than a sack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030","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=22030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22037,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22030\/revisions\/22037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}