{"id":4218,"date":"2010-03-12T16:59:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2010-03-12T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:59:35","slug":"mr-president-please-hire-bob-shrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4218\/mr-president-please-hire-bob-shrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. President, Please Hire Bob Shrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit erstwhile presidential campaign failure Bob Shrum for extolling some <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/bullpen\/column\/200716\/Is_Obama_winning \" target=\"_blank\">counter-intuitive thinking in his column<\/a> today.\u00a0 In it, he praises President Obama for outthinking everyone inside and outside the Beltway on the economy, health care, and the Machiavellian intrigue surrounding his inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>To pluck but one morsel from his witch\u2019s brew of analysis, Shrum claims that Obama has been the tortoise to the media\u2019s hare \u2013 patiently biding his time until history was ripe for a final push towards victory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama\u2019s strategy, partly shaped by events, also reflects the combination of qualities that brought him to the Oval Office\u2014and makes it more than likely that he will reach the goal that has eluded the nation since Theodore Roosevelt first proposed national health care in 1912. Obama has been &#8220;a steel fist in a velvet glove&#8221;\u2014Carl Standburg\u2019s description of Lincoln. The president who doesn\u2019t panic, didn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There we have it.\u00a0 Obama isn\u2019t aloof, or out of his depth.\u00a0 Instead, he\u2019s a one-gloved Lincoln.\u00a0 Maybe Bob can get an early start on running Obama\u2019s reelection campaign into the ground.\u00a0 Shrum in 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit erstwhile presidential campaign failure Bob Shrum for extolling some counter-intuitive thinking in his column today.\u00a0 In it, he praises President Obama for outthinking everyone inside and outside the Beltway on the economy, health care, and the Machiavellian intrigue surrounding his inner circle. To pluck but one morsel from his witch\u2019s brew of analysis, Shrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[956,143,955],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-barack-obama","tag-bob-shrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}