{"id":38144,"date":"2013-09-05T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38144"},"modified":"2013-09-05T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:59:39","slug":"lever-crankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=38144","title":{"rendered":"Lever-Crankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when his supporters said that one of the dreamiest things about Barack Obama was that he was a &#8220;constitutional scholar?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I said at the time that a President &#8211; a good one anyway &#8211; needs to know about as much about the Constitution as a good policeman does, and that a Constitutional Lawyer was nothing if not more prone to use his &#8220;knowlege&#8221; to circumvent rather than uphold the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/larrybell\/2013\/09\/03\/professor-or-not-obama-repeatedly-flunks-constitution-law-tests\/\">History, as just about always happens, is proving me right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when his supporters said that one of the dreamiest things about Barack Obama was that he was a &#8220;constitutional scholar?&#8221; I said at the time that a President &#8211; a good one anyway &#8211; needs to know about as much about the Constitution as a good policeman does, and that a Constitutional Lawyer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38144","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=38144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38149,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38144\/revisions\/38149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}