{"id":5258,"date":"2009-08-14T18:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2009-08-14T18:59:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:59:01","slug":"uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday:\u00a0 &#8220;If they punch, punch back twice as hard!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friday: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090814\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_obama\">Can&#8217;t we all just get along?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1250287678_0\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">President Barack Obama<\/span> on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Obama ventured west for the latest of his own town hall-style events, fielding polite but occasionally tough questions \u2014 one man declaring the president couldn&#8217;t pay for his plan without raising taxes. Tieless and rolling up his sleeves in campaign mode, Obama pitched his overhaul plan to a crowd in an airport hangar near <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1250287678_1\">Bozeman<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The president didn&#8217;t deny that there have been angry outbursts by foes of his plan at <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1250287678_2\">town halls<\/span> featuring Democratic lawmakers this month. But he said that was hardly the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;TV loves a ruckus,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;What you haven&#8217;t seen on TV and what makes me proud are the many constructive meetings going on all over the country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you fight by <em>Alinsky&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Rules for Radicals<\/em>, don&#8217;t be suprise if <em>Alinsky&#8217;s Rules for Radicals <\/em>get used against you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday:\u00a0 &#8220;If they punch, punch back twice as hard!&#8221; Friday: &#8220;Can&#8217;t we all just get along?&#8221; Trying to lower the temperature of the health care fight, President Barack Obama on Friday denounced news media emphasis on angry protesters at town-hall meetings. Obama ventured west for the latest of his own town hall-style events, fielding polite [&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-5258","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\/5258","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=5258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}