{"id":4819,"date":"2010-04-16T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T14:25:12","slug":"obamas-animal-house-thank-you-sir-may-i-have-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4819\/obamas-animal-house-thank-you-sir-may-i-have-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s “Animal House” – “Thank You, Sir! May I Have Another?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the iconic 1978 movie Animal House<\/em><\/a>?\u00a0 In it, Kevin Bacon plays a tormented fraternity pledge stripped to his tightie-whitie underwear and forced to respond to each swat of the paddle by screaming, “Thank you, sir!\u00a0 May I have another?”<\/p>\n

In Obama’s new America, life apparently imitates Animal House<\/em>.\u00a0 Speaking at a partisan fundraiser<\/a>, Obama once again descended into his petty trash-talking persona, saying that instead of protesting oversized government and tax burdens on April 15, Tea Party protesters should have been saying “thank you” to him.\u00a0 That’s not a misprint – we should be thanking Obama for our current federal tax system. Here is the video:<\/p>\n

obama-mocks-tea-partiers-you-would-think-theyd-be-saying-thank-you<\/a><\/p>\n

No, Mr. President.\u00a0 American taxpayers have already been stripped to their proverbial underwear, just like Kevin Bacon’s pledge.\u00a0 We’re not going to respond with “thank you, sir, may I have another?”\u00a0 No, we’re going to swat back come November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the iconic 1978 movie Animal House?\u00a0 In it, Kevin Bacon plays a tormented fraternity pledge stripped to his tightie-whitie underwear and forced to respond to each swat of the paddle by screaming, “Thank you, sir!\u00a0 May I have another?” In Obama’s new America, life apparently imitates Animal House.\u00a0 Speaking at a partisan fundraiser, Obama […]<\/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":[602,59,1123,24,105,71,28,1122],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-government","tag-deficit","tag-miami-fundraiser","tag-obama","tag-tax","tag-taxes","tag-tea-party","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","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=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}