{"id":23017,"date":"2011-09-20T06:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23017"},"modified":"2011-09-20T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:55:59","slug":"the-leaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23017","title":{"rendered":"The Leaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Congressional Black Caucus note that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/182209-cbc-chairman-if-obama-wasnt-in-office-we-would-be-marching-on-white-house\">if the Obamessiah weren&#8217;t president, they&#8217;d be \u2018marching on the White House\u2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus \u201cprobably would be marching on the White House\u201d if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;why not march?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, all us crackers did it, right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If [former President] Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House,&#8221; Cleaver told \u201cThe Miami Herald\u201d in comments published Sunday. &#8220;There is a less-volatile reaction in the CBC because nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, the only reason <em>not <\/em>to march is&#8230;racism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Congressional Black Caucus note that if the Obamessiah weren&#8217;t president, they&#8217;d be \u2018marching on the White House\u2019: Unhappy members of the Congressional Black Caucus \u201cprobably would be marching on the White House\u201d if Obama were not president, according to CBC Chairman Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.). So&#8230;why not march? I mean, all us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017","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=23017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23018,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23017\/revisions\/23018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}