{"id":118,"date":"2010-11-04T21:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=118"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:26","slug":"gomer-pyle-1600-pennsylvania-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2010\/11\/gomer-pyle-1600-pennsylvania-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Disillusioned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Barack Obama the most na\u00efve man in America? I’m certainly not the first<\/a> to pose this question.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate, called Barack Obama na\u00efve for saying he would meet with leaders of rogue nations without preconditions.\u00a0 And now, Obama is proposing to meet with Republican Party leaders in hopes of achieving “common ground” legislation (the polite phrase for watered-down crap).\u00a0 If he believes the Republicans will agree with him on anything, he is indeed the Gomer Pyle<\/a> of our time.<\/p>\n

Maya Angelou (via Oprah) warned<\/a>, “When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time.”\u00a0 Republican Senator Mitch McConnell was very believable, at least to me, when he said his party’s most important goal<\/a> was to make Obama a one-term President.\u00a0 Obama would be wise to believe him too, but I am not counting on it.<\/p>\n

It is tiresome hearing a man talk but never quite getting around to telling you what he believes in or doing anything about it.\u00a0 From Guantanamo to “Don’t Ask Dont Tell” to Green Jobs to true health care reform (what we have now is simply legislative sausage), Obama has not delivered on core principles and promises.\u00a0 Yes, I know, we have been in a recession, but does that mean that principle is put aside and deal-making is all there is<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I used to scoff at the “values” candidates the Republicans would trot out every four years, but now I see some value in “values”.\u00a0 I thought I had voted for a Democrat for President in 2008, but I guess I was wrong.\u00a0 Makes me wonder if I should finally apologize to my wife for not voting for Hillary way back when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Barack Obama the most na\u00efve man in America? I’m certainly not the first to pose this question.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton, the presidential candidate, called Barack Obama na\u00efve for saying he would meet with leaders of rogue nations without preconditions.\u00a0 And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}