{"id":235947,"date":"2010-01-27T07:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30492"},"modified":"2010-01-27T07:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T12:01:42","slug":"a-picture-of-obama%e2%80%99s-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/235947","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Of Obama\u2019s Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/photo_56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4206\" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"Andrew Bolt\" src=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/photo_56.jpg?w=100&#038;h=75\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a>By <strong>Andrew Bolt<a href=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/ob_mirror_thumb.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-30494\" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"ob_mirror_thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/papundits.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/ob_mirror_thumb.jpg?w=300&#038;h=213\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Astonishing. It\u2019s actually the <em>lack <\/em>of self-reflection that caused the White House to<a title=\" release this picture of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/whitehouse\/4291192735\/\" > release this picture of Barack Obama<\/a>, thinking it would do him good. If ever you needed an illustration of his self-absorption\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama apparently thinks his excellence is what\u2019s costing him, and is defiant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><a title=\"I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsbag.org\/?p=30073\" >I\u2019d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles Krauthammer suggests the third option is more likely:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/27\/a-picture-of-obama%e2%80%99s-problem-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/iiMQgxtJVAQ\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/andrewbolt\/\" ><em>Andrew Bolt<\/em><\/a><em> is a journalist and columnist writing for <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/\" ><em>The Herald Sun<\/em><\/a><em> in Melbourne Victoria Australia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more excellent articles from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/andrewbolt\/\" >Andrew Bolt\u2019s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted in 111th Congress, 2010 Elections, America (USA), Barry Soetoro (aka Barack Hussein Obama), Conniving Politicians, Democrats, Liberals, Lily-Livered Liberals, Limp-Wrist Liberals, Political Prostitutes, Politics, Power Hungry, Propaganda, Public Opinion, Spine Donor Politicians Tagged: Andrew Bolt, Health Care Reform Bill, Massachusetts Special Senate Election, President Obama, The Day Obamacare Died, Tony <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/papundits.wordpress.com\/30492\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=papundits.wordpress.com&#038;blog=174708&#038;post=30492&#038;subd=papundits&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bolt Astonishing. It\u2019s actually the lack of self-reflection that caused the White House to release this picture of Barack Obama, thinking it would do him good. If ever you needed an illustration of his self-absorption\u2026 Barack Obama apparently thinks his excellence is what\u2019s costing him, and is defiant: I\u2019d rather be a really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947","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\/4200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}