{"id":7518,"date":"2010-10-28T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:37:17","slug":"obama-not-shining-in-his-spectacle-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7518\/obama-not-shining-in-his-spectacle-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Not Shining in His Spectacle of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which of these sounds like the person currently serving as the leader of his party and nation\u2019s chief executive?\u00a0 On one side is a man crisscrossing the nation in a mad-dash to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20101028\/NEWS02\/310289881 \" target=\"_blank\">raise his members\u2019 hopes<\/a>, and squeeze out a few more votes and volunteers by Election Day.\u00a0 He is upbeat, full of self-effacing humor, and mindful of long-term perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The other man is in a television studio in Washington, D.C. defending the results of a campaign that ended almost two years ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/10\/watch---obama-on-daily-show-ye.html \" target=\"_blank\">To a comedian<\/a>.\u00a0 And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/27\/AR2010102709035.html \" target=\"_blank\">failing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first man is former president Bill Clinton.\u00a0 The latter is his current successor Barack Obama.\u00a0 While Clinton is preaching a \u201cwe\u2019re-all-in-this-together\u201d sermon in battleground states, Obama seems lost in self-absorption, unable to feel anyone\u2019s pain \u2013 including the crushing news that one\u2019s political career is over because of votes the president asked you to take.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, politics is a big-boy business with harsh outcomes.\u00a0 But it is jolting to watch President #44 missing so many lessons from #42 about the importance of running through the finish line instead of stopping several yards out.\u00a0 Just like winning, sometimes people need to feel like they\u2019re losing <em>for<\/em> something; in this case the president\u2019s uber-liberal agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The failure to lead and inspire in the face of certain defeat will not be forgotten by those Democrats who survive to fight in 2012.\u00a0 Chance are, the memories of Clinton helping and Obama not will do much to make Hillary Clinton\u2019s dark horse candidacy all the more appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of these sounds like the person currently serving as the leader of his party and nation\u2019s chief executive?\u00a0 On one side is a man crisscrossing the nation in a mad-dash to raise his members\u2019 hopes, and squeeze out a few more votes and volunteers by Election Day.\u00a0 He is upbeat, full of self-effacing humor, [&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":[782,914,143,501,729,118,728],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-daily-show","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-jon-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518","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=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}