{"id":7502,"date":"2009-12-28T07:19:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7502"},"modified":"2009-12-28T05:39:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T10:39:53","slug":"obama-out-on-that-chain-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7502","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Out On That Chain Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our old friend Susan Lenfestey’s holiday cheer has apparently been harshed by President Obama’s first year in office…<\/a><\/p>\n

…oh, who are we kidding?\u00a0 Susan Lenfestey has never met a mellow she couldn’t harsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, even by her dysthemic standards, this blog post was a doozy:<\/p>\n

Maya Angelou’s poem, Still I Rise, has been going through my head lately. Some verses:<\/p>\n

You may write me down in history
\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,
\nYou may trod me in the very dirt
\nBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.<\/p>\n

You may shoot me with your words,
\nYou may cut me with your eyes,
\nYou may kill me with your hatefulness,
\nBut still, like air, I’ll rise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Catch that?\u00a0 If Susan Lenfestey’s special little world, Barack Obama – a child of the middle class, who’s benefited not only from the best (or at least highest-rated) education American money can buy but from the American people’s open-mindedness<\/em>, is no different than a Jim Crow-era sojourner who had to deal with real, genuine, constant oppression!<\/p>\n

I’d say “every single one of us who disagrees with the President must be no better in their eyes than some Grand Kleagle”, but I guess we’ve already established that<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Feel like that’s what our president is dealing with, and still, he rises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no.\u00a0 He doesn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is a reject from the Star Tribune on Obama’s Afghan speech. Yeah, it’s a tad dated, and we’re on to Copenhagen, but Barb is sick of holding up her end of the line without me, so I thought maybe something’s better than nothing. Or maybe not. Sorry for the absence, I lost my mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This absence of smart-ass riposte is brought to you by the kinder, gentler Mitch.\u00a0 Or at least the Mitch that’ll let the occasional hanging curve-ball by out of pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our old friend Susan Lenfestey’s holiday cheer has apparently been harshed by President Obama’s first year in office… …oh, who are we kidding?\u00a0 Susan Lenfestey has never met a mellow she couldn’t harsh. Still, even by her dysthemic standards, this blog post was a doozy: Maya Angelou’s poem, Still I Rise, has been going through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502","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=7502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7502\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}