{"id":7479,"date":"2010-10-22T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7479"},"modified":"2010-10-22T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:19:05","slug":"do-you-suffer-from-obama-underappreciation-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7479\/do-you-suffer-from-obama-underappreciation-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Suffer From Obama Underappreciation Syndrome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pundit and board certified psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer identifies a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/250647\/obama-underappreciation-syndrome-charles-krauthammer\" target=\"_blank\">new strain of derangement infecting the body politic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the \u201cNew Foundation\u201d of a more regulated and socially engineered, and therefore more humane, society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them Obamacare, the stimulus, financial regulation, and a shot at cap-and-trade \u2014 and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a heretofore undiscovered psychological derangement: anxiety-induced Obama Underappreciation Syndrome, wherein an entire population is so addled by its economic anxieties as to be neurologically incapable of appreciating the \u201cfacts and science\u201d undergirding Obamacare and the other blessings their president has bestowed upon them from on high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But don\u2019t just take Dr. Krauthammer\u2019s word for it.\u00a0 Check out this clip of President Barack Obama blaming his downward spiral in popularity on a lack of effective advertising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"ep\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&amp;videoId=politics\/2010\/10\/21\/sot.obama.recovery.act.cnn\" \/><embed id=\"ep\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"416\" height=\"374\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&amp;videoId=politics\/2010\/10\/21\/sot.obama.recovery.act.cnn\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Feel better now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pundit and board certified psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer identifies a new strain of derangement infecting the body politic: Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the \u201cNew Foundation\u201d of a more regulated and socially engineered, and therefore more humane, society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them [&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":[782,143,1986,1987,35,1674],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-barack-obama","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-obama-underappreciation-syndrome","tag-obamacare","tag-recovery-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","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=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}