{"id":378,"date":"2009-05-21T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=378"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:55:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T12:55:50","slug":"what-is-with-obama-and-hookers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/what-is-with-obama-and-hookers\/","title":{"rendered":"What is with Obama and hookers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/content\/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976\">$2.6 Million US tax dollars to Train Chinese Prostitutes<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/05\/20\/nih-spends-study-prostitutes-thailand-high-hiv-risk\/\">$178,000 US Tax Dollars to study prostitutes in Thailand<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>David Williams, vice president for policy at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagw.org\/\">Citizens Against Government Waste<\/a> is correct in his assessment of this latest study, &#8220;This really is a complete waste of money and should not be funded by the taxpayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Barry could just be doing some research on places he plans on visiting in his role as our <em>Dear Leader<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/287558.php\">According the comedian Jay Mohr, we shouldn&#8217;t blame him for looking for something on the side<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Just to strengthen the &#8220;he&#8217;s looking for a place to party&#8221; theory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/public\/Content\/Article.aspx?rsrcid=48221\">$117,000 US Tax dollars are being spent on &#8220;party drug&#8221; usage in Brazil<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Barry wrote in his book that he had a weakness cocaine in his younger days.  Perhaps the stress of attempting to be the leader of the Free World has him looking to recapture the carefree days of his youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was $2.6 Million US tax dollars to Train Chinese Prostitutes. Now it&#8217;s $178,000 US Tax Dollars to study prostitutes in Thailand. David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste is correct in his assessment of this latest study, &#8220;This really is a complete waste of money and should not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[78,140,397,621,633,753,821],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-add-new-tag","tag-barack-obama","tag-hookers","tag-politics","tag-prostitute","tag-taxes","tag-waste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-66","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}