{"id":231,"date":"2010-12-18T20:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T01:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=231"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:25","slug":"dazed-and-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2010\/12\/dazed-and-confused\/","title":{"rendered":"(D)azed and Confused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see no consistency in the Obama administration.\u00a0  One day, they give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/18\/your-money\/taxes\/18wealth.html\">tax breaks to billionaires<\/a>.\u00a0  The next day, they finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/19\/us\/politics\/19cong.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">stop discriminating<\/a> against homosexuals in the military. \u00a0 I have no idea where this man draws his lines, other than the ones Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell scribe.\u00a0  My larger concern is that Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il, Netanyahu, Putin, Karzai and Zardari (Pakistan) know this and use it to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself wishing that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/12\/howard-dean-obama-primary-challenge-a-bad-country\/\">alternative to Obama<\/a>, someone who stands for something\u00a0 (who? for goodness sake), would mount a primary challenge &#8212; but this would guarantee a conservative win in 2012.\u00a0  That may be in the cards anyway, so what&#8217;s to lose?<\/p>\n<p>As to the economy, Obama plus Geithner, Summers and Bernanke have been Bush III without the cowboy hat.\u00a0 A president is defined by the team he or she assembles.\u00a0 Judge for yourself what they&#8217;ve done in his name.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to admit that Obama is not a great president, and not even a good one.\u00a0 At best, he&#8217;s been a roadblock to an increasingly-outrageous conservative agenda.\u00a0 But anyone with (D) after their name could have done that.\u00a0 Is that what it has come to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see no consistency in the Obama administration.\u00a0 One day, they give tax breaks to billionaires.\u00a0 The next day, they finally stop discriminating against homosexuals in the military. \u00a0 I have no idea where this man draws his lines, other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2010\/12\/dazed-and-confused\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}