{"id":4796,"date":"2014-08-12T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2014-08-12T21:04:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T01:04:14","slug":"quote-of-the-day-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/quote-of-the-day-177\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the sheer \u201cI won\u201d in-your-face immaturity of the Obamaites \u2014 remember the \u201cHey, Hey, Goodbye\u201d chant to Bush at the inauguration \u2014 ensured that people would be angrier than normal. And they did that on purpose because a sharply divided nation suited them politically. Now Ron Fournier wonders if Americans would rally behind Obama after another 9\/11 the way we rallied behind Bush, and I think the answer is no \u2014 because Obama has spent his entire time in office flicking boogers at half the country.<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve said <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/188672\/\">before<\/a>, the reason why presidents traditionally act \u201cpresidential\u201d isn\u2019t because they\u2019re stiffly formal, it\u2019s because acting presidential, rather than purely political, lets you appeal to the whole country in ways that a pure partisan can\u2019t. Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB124260113149028331?mod=wsj_share_tweet&amp;mg=reno64-wsj\">doesn\u2019t care<\/a>, and we may very well pay for that, too. But elections have consequences, and when you elect a guy like Obama, the consequences are bad ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/193234\/\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the sheer \u201cI won\u201d in-your-face immaturity of the Obamaites \u2014 remember the \u201cHey, Hey, Goodbye\u201d chant to Bush at the inauguration \u2014 ensured that people would be angrier than normal. And they did that on purpose because a sharply divided nation suited them politically. Now Ron Fournier wonders if Americans would rally behind Obama after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[38,52,19],"tags":[251,262,414,480,621,638,639,655,839],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-bho-politics","category-politics","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-leftist-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-quote","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-reynol","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1fm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}