{"id":11489,"date":"2011-09-30T10:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2011-09-30T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:44:32","slug":"video-obama-smirks-lectures-that-americans-have-gotten-a-little-soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11489\/video-obama-smirks-lectures-that-americans-have-gotten-a-little-soft\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Smirks, Lectures Americans Who Have &#8220;Gotten a Little Soft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VhDuqMdiol4&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weeklystandard.com%2Fblogs%2Fobama-americas-gone-soft_594623.html&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with an NBC affiliate, Barack Obama smirks and lectures that Americans have &#8220;gotten a little soft.&#8221;\u00a0 Take particular note of his expression as he utters those words.<\/p>\n<p>According to Obama, you see, it&#8217;s never a problem with himself or his policies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s that he somehow didn&#8217;t explain himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/09\/27\/obamas-feisty-bet-interview-highlights-challenge-sidelining-black-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\">often enough<\/a> to the rest of you ungrateful rubes &#8211; never mind that he has done little else in his presidency than give cliche-saturated speeches or golf.\u00a0 Or now, that you people have &#8220;gotten a little soft&#8221; for his tastes.<\/p>\n<p>From maligning Americans who supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/29590_Obama-_Small-Town_People_Cling_to_Religion_Guns_and_Xenophobia\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;cling&#8221;<\/a> to their guns, xenophobia and religion, then later to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jul\/1\/american-exceptionalism\/\" target=\"_blank\">ambivalence<\/a> toward American Exceptionalism and now this, Barack Obama just oozes adoration for this country, doesn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable new interview with an NBC affiliate, Barack Obama smirks and lectures that Americans have &#8220;gotten a little soft.&#8221;\u00a0 Take particular note of his expression as he utters those words. According to Obama, you see, it&#8217;s never a problem with himself or his policies.\u00a0 It&#8217;s that he somehow didn&#8217;t explain himself often enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,3080,24,3079],"class_list":["post-11489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-americans","tag-obama","tag-soft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11503,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions\/11503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}