{"id":5416,"date":"2009-09-16T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2009-09-15T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T00:47:37","slug":"honesty-is-such-a-lonely-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Honesty is Such a Lonely Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and is not often found paired in a sentence with &#8220;Barack Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t call Obammy a \u201cliar&#8221;,  \u201chypocrite\u201d, \u201ccowardly\u201d, or \u201cintellectually dishonest\u201d as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0909\/House_guidelines_for_Presidential_putdowns.html\">First Amendment has no place in the House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Economist, not bound by such childish attempts at squelching free speech, has no problem calling Jimmy II a liar. They just use bigger, prettier words.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;on his speech on America&#8217;s financial collapse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/unitedstates\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14444100\">&#8230;much of what Mr Obama said was disingenuous.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2643\/3924736648_f2601f264d.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><font size=\"6\">&#8220;You lie!&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In all fairness however, one must attempt to discern if Obama (and his <span class=\"theColor\">accomplice<\/span> TOTUS) are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>employing deliberate disingenuousness or if<\/li>\n<li>President Bush is correct in saying Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/09\/15\/bush-on-obama-this-guy-has-no-clue\/#more-69052\">is without a clue<\/a>, i.e. Obama&#8217;s just stoopid with numbers and math and money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I might suggest 3. (1+2=3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and is not often found paired in a sentence with &#8220;Barack Obama.&#8221; But don&#8217;t call Obammy a \u201cliar&#8221;, \u201chypocrite\u201d, \u201ccowardly\u201d, or \u201cintellectually dishonest\u201d as the First Amendment has no place in the House. The Economist, not bound by such childish attempts at squelching free speech, has no problem calling Jimmy II a liar. They just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5416","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\/5416","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}