Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
President Obama reminds me of the Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n
He claims to have God-like powers and therefore is entitled to do whatever he wants to do.<\/p>\n
But he doesn\u2019t actually have any powers; it\u2019s all billowing smoke and scornful talk.<\/p>\n
But people Believe he has the powers, so they let him get away with doing whatever he wants to do, just as if he actually did have the powers.<\/p>\n
Until Toto pulls back the curtain; then, the fraud is revealed.<\/p>\n
We need Toto around here.\u00a0 The sooner the better.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The big difference? \u00a0The Wizard of Oz protested the truth of his powers until he couldn’t anymore. \u00a0Obama seems to have checked out even as the little yappy dogs swarm over his administraiton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama reminds me of the Wizard of Oz. He claims to have God-like powers and therefore is entitled to do whatever he wants to do. But he doesn\u2019t actually have any powers; it\u2019s all billowing smoke and scornful talk. But people Believe he has the powers, so they […]<\/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-56439","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\/56439","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=56439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56440,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56439\/revisions\/56440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}