{"id":44547,"date":"2014-06-04T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44547"},"modified":"2014-06-04T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:24:51","slug":"perfectly-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44547","title":{"rendered":"Perfectly Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Turley:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2014\/06\/03\/turley_obama_the_president_that_richard_nixon_always_wanted_to_be.html\">Obama has become the president <\/a>that a Nixon wanted to be &#8211; but never had the raw power to actually pull off:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s troubling is that we have a system that has been stable precisely because these are limited and shared powers. This president has indicated that he&#8217;s just not willing to comply with some of those aspects. He told Congress he would go it alone and in our system you&#8217;re not allowed to go it alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nixon was ruthless at exercising power &#8211; but Obama has one thing Nixon could never dream of; a media that has taken it as a mission to serve as his praetorian guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Turley:\u00a0 Obama has become the president that a Nixon wanted to be &#8211; but never had the raw power to actually pull off: What&#8217;s troubling is that we have a system that has been stable precisely because these are limited and shared powers. This president has indicated that he&#8217;s just not willing to comply [&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-44547","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\/44547","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=44547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44549,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44547\/revisions\/44549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}