{"id":5813,"date":"2010-06-19T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T19:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2010-06-19T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T19:37:29","slug":"profiles-in-shallowness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5813\/profiles-in-shallowness\/","title":{"rendered":"Profiles in Shallowness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Day 60 of the Gulf Oil Spill now upon us, <a href=\"http:\/\/dakotabeacon.com\/entry\/mark_steyn_when_narcissists_realize_that_we_are_the_ones_we_have_been_waiti\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Mark Steyn provides a trenchant diagnosis<\/a> of the mental state directing President Barack Obama\u2019s approach to governing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UN, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Bono: these are the colors a progressive worldly westerner nails to his mast. You don\u2019t need to go anywhere, or do anything: You just need to pick up the general groove, which you can do very easily at almost any college campus.<\/p>\n<p>This Barack Obama did brilliantly. A man who speaks fewer languages than the famously moronic George W Bush, he has nevertheless grasped the essential lingo of the European transnationalist: Continental leaders strike attitudes rather than effect action &#8211; which is frankly beneath them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BP\u2019s demoted CEO Tony Hayward may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/06\/19\/gulf-state-senator-slams-bp-chiefs-attendance-uk-yacht-race\/ \" target=\"_blank\">in hot water for attending a glitzy yacht race<\/a> while oil continues to saturate the Gulf, but are his actions really that much different than Obama giving a national speech on the subject before turning his attention towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/06\/19\/facing-federal-lawsuit-arizona-governor-stands-ground-immigration-law\/ \" target=\"_blank\">challenging Arizona\u2019s immigration law<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Day 60 of the Gulf Oil Spill now upon us, Mark Steyn provides a trenchant diagnosis of the mental state directing President Barack Obama\u2019s approach to governing: The UN, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Bono: these are the colors a progressive worldly westerner nails to his mast. You don\u2019t need to go anywhere, or do anything: [&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":[143,1444,491,1320,569,1443],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-british-petroleum","tag-george-w-bush","tag-gulf-oil-spill","tag-mark-steyn","tag-tony-hayward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","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=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5816,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}