why Obama isn\u2019t stopping Putin<\/a>. Best paragraph:<\/p>\n\u201cOne of the most ironic things about the Obama presidency is that Yes We Can hasn\u2019t even been replaced by No We Won\u2019t. It has shriveled to No We Can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
A President who doesn\u2019t have the guts to take on the Sierra Club isn\u2019t going to make an ex-KGB man quake in his boots. Or even a chinless ophthalmologist. If everybody knows you\u2019re not willing to use the stick, there\u2019s no point is speaking at all.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, to be fair, the citizens require so much supervision that it’s hard to spare much effort for overseas “enemies”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Damn that Fernandez, he always says things so much better than I could. This time, it\u2019s about why Obama isn\u2019t stopping Putin. Best paragraph: \u201cOne of the most ironic things about the Obama presidency is that Yes We Can hasn\u2019t even been replaced by No We Won\u2019t. It has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933","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=42933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42937,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42933\/revisions\/42937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}