{"id":518467,"date":"2010-04-06T20:32:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f96\/parsing-obama-41908\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T00:32:34","slug":"parsing-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518467","title":{"rendered":"Parsing Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.06.10 10:25 AM posted by scottspiegel<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend a poor lithium battery plant worker from South  Carolina named Doris stumbled into a bear trap we\u0092ll call \u0093Obama in a  contemplative yet incoherent, feisty yet expansive mood.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>Dear Doris asked Obama a question and was hit with a 2,600-word,  17-minute <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/04\/obamas-17-minute-12-second-answer-on-taxes\/1\" >onslaught<\/a> that makes any rambling reply Sarah Palin  supposedly ever gave seem like the soul of brevity.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Doris had placed a tall order: she had asked Obama to  sell her on the recently passed health care overhaul legislation via a  diatribe that rehashed the history of Medicare, trotted out charges  against Bush, and stopped along the way for an analogy involving leaky  roofs.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait\u0097she didn\u0092t; that was what she got.  She asked Obama whether  raising taxes in a recession was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>A prickly Obama jumped in and implied that Doris and millions of  other Americans who had been reading about the health care legislation  over the past twelve months were badly misinformed, easily misled by  huckster politicians, and quite possibly morons.<\/p>\n<p>He launched into one of several internally and externally redundant  lists cataloging the reasons for health care reform (which was not  Doris\u0092s question).  In a vastly condensed nutshell:<\/p>\n<p>List 1, Point 1: Some people don\u0092t have health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>L1, P2: Some people with health insurance might not have it in the  future. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/parsing_obama\" ><b> read more &amp;raquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/parsing_obama\" >http:\/\/www.conservativeoutpost.com\/parsing_obama<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.06.10 10:25 AM posted by scottspiegel Over the weekend a poor lithium battery plant worker from South Carolina named Doris stumbled into a bear trap we\u0092ll call \u0093Obama in a contemplative yet incoherent, feisty yet expansive mood.\u0094 Dear Doris asked Obama a question and was hit with a 2,600-word, 17-minute onslaught that makes any rambling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518467","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}