{"id":1072,"date":"2009-09-10T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2009-09-10T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T16:57:17","slug":"obama-the-policy-wonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/obama-the-policy-wonk\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama the policy-wonk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sprung, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/xpostfactoid.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">XPOSTFACTOID<\/a>, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/xpostfactoid.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/great-myth-about-obamas-soaring.html\" target=\"_blank\">powerful deconstruction of the myth that Barack Obama does not do detail<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course he does, as has been evident &#8211; from the start of his Presidential campaign 33 months ago &#8211; to anyone who actually listens to what he says.\u00a0 Why has the myth persisted?\u00a0 Partly, I think it is laziness:\u00a0 it is easier to repeat a cliche than to listen and think for oneself. Partly, I think it is\u00a0right-wing spin:\u00a0\u00a0his enemies think they can paint him\u00a0as an airhead, as some tried to paint Tony Blair (remember &#8220;Bambi&#8221;?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sprung, over at XPOSTFACTOID, has a powerful deconstruction of the myth that Barack Obama does not do detail.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course he does, as has been evident &#8211; from the start of his Presidential campaign 33 months ago &#8211; to anyone who actually listens to what he says.\u00a0 Why has the myth persisted?\u00a0 Partly, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57,64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentation","category-obama-speeches","category-politics","category-rhetoric","p1","y2009","m09","d10","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}