{"id":56337,"date":"2015-12-01T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T12:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56337"},"modified":"2015-11-28T08:08:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:08:59","slug":"back-to-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56337","title":{"rendered":"Back To ’67"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest news this past year is the general consensus (among those who are paying attention) that Barack Obama is worse – much worse – a president than Jimmy Carter. \u00a0He’s more along the lines of Woodrow Wilson or LBJ.<\/p>\n

Ed Driscoll\u00a0on how apt the LBJ parallel actually is<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Between the race riots, the campus riots, the massive expansion of the federal government and the concurrent belief in its infallibility, the military debacles overseas, a feeling in general that the nation was out of control and now this latest call for the wise men to bail him out, it really does feel like we\u2019re living out the last year of the Johnson administration, doesn\u2019t it? Funny, when Democratic operatives with bylines were submitting Tiger Beat-<\/em>style articles in 2007 and 2008 dreamily forecasting which Democrat presidencies Obama\u2019s would most closely resemble, LBJ\u2019s rarely made the list. Wonder why?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Because none of them remembered back that far?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The biggest news this past year is the general consensus (among those who are paying attention) that Barack Obama is worse – much worse – a president than Jimmy Carter. \u00a0He’s more along the lines of Woodrow Wilson or LBJ. Ed Driscoll\u00a0on how apt the LBJ parallel actually is: Between the race riots, the campus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56337","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=56337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56337\/revisions\/56338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}