{"id":62413,"date":"2017-03-13T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62413"},"modified":"2017-03-12T23:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T04:18:55","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-word-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62413","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning Of The Word &#8220;Is&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former President Obama was furious that President Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/report-obama-was-furious-after-trump-accused-him-of-wiretapping\/ar-AAo07Sp?li=BBnb7Kz\"><span class=\"s2\">accused him of ordering a wiretap<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 A former Obama mouthpiece said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,&#8221; said Kevin Lewis. &#8220;As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">No.\u00a0 Sorry, that\u2019s not going to cut it.\u00a0 I may have been born at night, but I wasn\u2019t born last night.\u00a0 I know how this works.\u00a0 When Guido put a\u00a0hit on Lucky Louie, The Don didn&#8217;t actually order that, he just mentioned that he really needs this problem to go away.\u00a0 There\u2019s never an outright order, hasn\u2019t been since some guy innocently wondered \u201cWill no one rid me of this turbulent priest?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">If Obama were innocent, that\u2019s not the way to deny the accusation.\u00a0 When someone asks: \u201cDid Obama order a wiretap on Trump?\u201d you say \u201cNo.\u201d\u00a0 Unless he did it.\u00a0 Then you have to weasel around the question.\u00a0 But not like that.\u00a0 Like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI don&#8217;t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed Government policy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=53834\"><span class=\"s3\">solely because of a contribution<\/span><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s not to say he didn\u2019t do it, only that he doesn\u2019t <\/span><span class=\"s4\">believe<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> you can find the evidence that he did it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s not to say there is no evidence, only that he doesn\u2019t believe <\/span><span class=\"s4\">you<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> can find it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s not to say he didn\u2019t change government policy because of a contribution, only that he didn\u2019t do it <\/span><span class=\"s4\">solely<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> because of a contribution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Now that guy was a straight-up expert at weasel words, Master Class liar.\u00a0 Obama and his minions are pathetic amateurs by comparison.\u00a0 Might as well sign the confession and be done with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Former President Obama was furious that President Trump accused him of ordering a wiretap.\u00a0 A former Obama mouthpiece said: \u00a0&#8220;A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,&#8221; said Kevin Lewis. &#8220;As part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62413","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=62413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62414,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62413\/revisions\/62414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}