{"id":6529,"date":"2009-12-01T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2009-12-01T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:12:37","slug":"will-obama-out-bs-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/will-obama-out-bs-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama Out-BS Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that Obama is following in Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s footsteps &#8211; talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single catcall &#8211; is a sign of how archaic hope for change and reform has become. <\/p>\n<p>If Obama honestly admitted that he is sending American boys to die to help assure the profits of drug kingpins like Karzai\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother, I could at least respect the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s candor.<\/p>\n<p>But the odds of truth breaking out during Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s visit to West Point are slim and none &#8211; and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Slim just left town,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as Dan Rather says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. The fact that Obama is following in Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s footsteps &#8211; talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,131],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-obama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6530,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}