{"id":7086,"date":"2009-12-10T11:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2009-12-10T11:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:15:40","slug":"when-bad-meets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7086","title":{"rendered":"When Bad Meets Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad wins.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/1209\/Bush_closes_the_gap.html\">50% of voters now say<\/a> they prefer having [BHO] as President to George W. Bush,  with 44% saying they&#8217;d rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous  approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that&#8217;s somewhat of a surprise  and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for  the country&#8217;s difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough  situation he inherited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge Bush fan being a far-right fiscal conservative so count me out, but Change <em>is<\/em> coming. Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad wins. 50% of voters now say they prefer having [BHO] as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they&#8217;d rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that&#8217;s somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","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=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7096,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}