{"id":440,"date":"2012-09-16T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-09-16T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:44:12","slug":"being-a-president-and-doing-what-presidents-do-or-did-do-until-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Being a President and Doing What Presidents Do (or did do until now)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. President, how about addressing the nation from the Oval Office, and giving the American people a statement about these embassy burnings?\u00a0 No politics.\u00a0 No blaming Bush or telling us it happened because Romney is wealthy.\u00a0 Just a serious non-politicized presidential address, with some papers in your hand to refer to.<\/p>\n<p>We have Muslim flags flying over our embassies and you&#8217;re setting up a lousy filmmaker to take the fall.\u00a0 Explain this to us, will you?\u00a0 There are a few people curious, even though the media isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Quit responding to everything Romney said and try responding to attacks and assassinations happening to our embassies and ambassador.\u00a0 Pretend a Republican did it.\u00a0 Talk to us and do something about this.\u00a0 Presidents used to take this kind of attack seriously and were expected to address us.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t an unreasonable expectation. Tell us why your response to an act of war is to get a video pulled from YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to a real irony.\u00a0 Nobody has any expectations from you, and this is after campaigning on being supremely capable.\u00a0 Now you&#8217;re campaigning by telling us we can expect even less from Romney.\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s a good way to get people to run out to the polls in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. President, how about addressing the nation from the Oval Office, and giving the American people a statement about these embassy burnings?\u00a0 No politics.\u00a0 No blaming Bush or telling us it happened because Romney is wealthy.\u00a0 Just a serious non-politicized &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}