{"id":2467,"date":"2010-01-28T11:23:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T17:23:04","slug":"state-of-the-yawnion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/state-of-the-yawnion\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of The Yawnion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes it was a nice speech. Yes it laid out specifics. It was polite. It was &#8220;Hey, we can still fix this together&#8221;. Do you remember &#8220;You lie&#8221;? Tea Baggers? Birthers?<\/p>\n<p>These people hate your guts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/joe-wilson.jpg\" alt=\"joe-wilson.jpg\" height=\"182\" width=\"272\" \/>(&#8220;Vote for me, Shouter McGee&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I know you deeply want everyone to come together, but there are just some people who will refuse no matter what you do. This was a smart SOTU that worked&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The loudest one in the room isn&#8217;t always who everyone agrees with. There are a lot of Republicans on the fence between the Tea Bagging hard right &amp; middle Obama.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/clapping-people.jpg\" alt=\"clapping-people.jpg\" height=\"164\" width=\"270\" \/>(&#8220;Yey! Did he say we get free cable?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>If this speech did anything, it spoke directly to them in the right tone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I get it. It wasn&#8217;t as firey FDR or JFK as I&#8217;d of liked, but again, it worked. Until I saw Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who looked like she was either napping or dead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ruth-bader-naping.jpg\" alt=\"ruth-bader-naping.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"270\" \/>(Sheep counting: #478, 479&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>How about Joe Lieberman when Obama said &#8220;We will have all of our combat troops out of Iraq by August&#8221; clearly mouthing &#8220;Sure you will&#8221; to a guy on his right?<\/p>\n<p>Classy Joe. When it happens, your home state should vote your sorry ass out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take one stroll out on Youtube to the comments. There are PAC&#8217;s and spammers out there who simply want to take this man down using lies or baseless insults&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s made many mistakes, but he&#8217;s surely no Bush&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/obama.jpg\" alt=\"obama.jpg\" height=\"232\" width=\"271\" \/>(You lying cocksucker!)<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Obama, it&#8217;s a sad, sad, sad, place out there right now. Hope can&#8217;t fix everything&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But some things are worth fighting for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You have people totally ignorant of the issues screaming insults. You are not magical, and I doubt you can reach these people. They&#8217;re unreachable. Time to move on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes it was a nice speech. Yes it laid out specifics. It was polite. It was &#8220;Hey, we can still fix this together&#8221;. Do you remember &#8220;You lie&#8221;? Tea Baggers? Birthers? These people hate your guts&#8230; (&#8220;Vote for me, Shouter McGee&#8221;) I know you deeply want everyone to come together, but there are just some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}