{"id":2197,"date":"2009-11-19T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2009-11-19T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T20:35:05","slug":"obama-suddenly-discovers-being-president-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2197\/obama-suddenly-discovers-being-president-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Suddenly Discovers Being President Is &#8220;Hard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, if only poor Barack Obama could have known that actually <em>being<\/em> President would prove this difficult when he rattled off easy promise after promise as a candidate.\u00a0 Back then, it was quite fun to throw rhetorical rocks and thunder commitments from behind his teleprompter with his trademark raised chin.\u00a0 But he wants us to know that the reality of living in the White House is just so&#8230;\u00a0 hard.<\/p>\n<p>The particular occasion for Obama&#8217;s lamentation was his admission that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/18\/AR2009111800571.html?wpisrc=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">he won&#8217;t be able to fulfill his promise<\/a> of closing Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center by January 2010 after all.\u00a0 In an interview with Fox News&#8217;s Major Garrett (which is iteself another monumental capitulation to hard reality), Obama said that he is &#8220;not disappointed&#8221; that he can&#8217;t make good on his written closure order, because doing so is &#8220;just technically hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, gosh, President Obama.\u00a0 Who knew that closing Guantanamo, balancing the budget, winning the war in Afghanistan, persuading Iran and North Korea to forego their nuclear ambitions and achieving Middle East peace would be so tough?\u00a0 It all looked so easy when someone else was in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee, if only poor Barack Obama could have known that actually being President would prove this difficult when he rattled off easy promise after promise as a candidate.\u00a0 Back then, it was quite fun to throw rhetorical rocks and thunder commitments from behind his teleprompter with his trademark raised chin.\u00a0 But he wants us to [&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":[499,24],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-guantanamo","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}