{"id":119333,"date":"2009-12-31T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2009\/12\/31\/its-time-to-get-a-grip-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T07:31:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:31:47","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-time-to-get-a-grip-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119333","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Get a Grip, Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2009\/12\/30\/it039s_time_to_get_a_grip_obama_226967.html\" >It&#8217;s Time to Get a Grip, Obama \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/30\/red_flags_waved_--_and_ignored_99720.html\" >Red Flags Waved &#8212; And Ignored \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Ruth Marcus, Washington Post<br \/>The more I think about the Christmas all-but-bombing, the angrier I get. At the multiple failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to get on the plane with explosives sewn inside his underwear. And at the Obama administration&apos;s initial, everything&apos;s-fine-everybody-move-right-along reaction.<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2009\/12\/30\/dick_cheney_is_a_coward_227001.html\" >Dick Cheney is a Coward \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Steve Benen, Washington Monthly<br \/>DICK THE COWARD&#8230;. It was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney decided to trash the president again.&#8221;As I&apos;ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won&apos;t be at war.&#8221;Let&apos;s review a few pesky details. First, it was Cheney&apos;s administration that released some of the alleged terrorists who plotted the attack into an &#8220;art therapy rehabilitation program&#8221; in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2009\/12\/30\/we_need_a_new_chapter_in_our_history_226973.html\" >We Need a New Chapter in Our History \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Marc Cooper, Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Time to Get a Grip, Obama Red Flags Waved &#8212; And Ignored Ruth Marcus, Washington PostThe more I think about the Christmas all-but-bombing, the angrier I get. At the multiple failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to get on the plane with explosives sewn inside his underwear. And at the Obama administration&apos;s initial, everything&apos;s-fine-everybody-move-right-along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}