{"id":9571,"date":"2010-08-19T18:16:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T22:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9571"},"modified":"2010-08-19T18:16:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T22:16:30","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-decline-and-fall-of-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"The decline and fall of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/nilegardiner\/100050412\/the-stunning-decline-of-barack-obama-10-key-reasons-why-the-obama-presidency-is-in-meltdown\/\">10 reasons<\/a> for the disintegration of the Chosen One:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<blockquote>\n<li>The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people<\/li>\n<li>Most Americans don\u2019t have confidence in the president\u2019s leadership<\/li>\n<li>Obama fails to inspire<\/li>\n<li>The United States is drowning in debt<\/li>\n<li>Obama\u2019s Big Government message is falling flat<\/li>\n<li>Obama\u2019s support for socialised health care is a huge political mistake<\/li>\n<li>Obama\u2019s handling of the Gulf oil spill has been weak-kneed and indecisive<\/li>\n<li>US foreign policy is an embarrassing mess under the Obama administration<\/li>\n<li>President Obama is muddled and confused on national security<\/li>\n<li>Obama doesn\u2019t believe in American greatness<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The details are worth reading, but I think the omitted number 11 is the most important reason: Obama is a fraud. He is a creation of the age of the teleprompter, the image obsessed, the fantasy speech writer, the sound bite; he is a brand mirage, a digital construct, a free floating \u00a0avatar un-rooted in objective reality.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama that was elected doesn\u2019t actually exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 reasons for the disintegration of the Chosen One: The Obama presidency is out of touch with the American people Most Americans don\u2019t have confidence in the president\u2019s leadership Obama fails to inspire The United States is drowning in debt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-decline-and-fall-of-barack-obama\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[461],"class_list":["post-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","tag-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}