{"id":3364,"date":"2010-01-22T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T22:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2010-01-22T23:02:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T04:02:22","slug":"heads-obama-wins-tails-obama-doesnt-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3364\/heads-obama-wins-tails-obama-doesnt-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads Obama Wins, Tails Obama Doesn&#8217;t Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/22\/feeling_the_heat_obama_pours_kool-aid_100006.html\" target=\"_blank\">a sparkling column today<\/a>, Jonah Goldberg does a rigorous job of deconstructing the Obama machine&#8217;s narrative that every single act in American political life &#8212; even the election of a Republican senator in Massachusetts &#8212; is proof of the president&#8217;s virtues.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite section:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/george\/2010\/01\/transcript-george-stephanopoulos-exclusive-interview-with-president-obama.html\">interview with ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, the president offered his nuanced analysis of the Bay State G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung and his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>In short: &#8220;I did nothing wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, with one caveat: &#8220;One thing I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done . . . that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people. . . . I think the assumption was, if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on the, you know, this provision, or that law, or are we making a good, rational decision here, that people will get it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is the President beginning to remind anyone else of the guy who, when asked about his worst quality during his job interview, says &#8220;I care too much&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sparkling column today, Jonah Goldberg does a rigorous job of deconstructing the Obama machine&#8217;s narrative that every single act in American political life &#8212; even the election of a Republican senator in Massachusetts &#8212; is proof of the president&#8217;s virtues. My favorite section: In an interview with ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos, the president offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,333],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-jonah-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}