{"id":897,"date":"2009-08-13T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T19:22:46","slug":"obama-felix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/obama-felix\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Felix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never thought much of\u00a0historian Niall Ferguson&#8217;s ideas.\u00a0\u00a0 For years he has been arguing that America and the West suffer from too little religion, while simultaneously arguing that the Islamic world suffers from too much.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One is tempted to ask for this spiritual\u00a0Laffer Curve to be quantified and differentiated, so that we can determine the optimum level of religion for our society once and for all.\u00a0 At least we could then stop having to accuse him of inconsistency, which surely must wrankle him.<br \/>\nBut, despite the shere impossibility of the task, he has managed to plumb even shallower waters.\u00a0\u00a0 Barack Obama is like Felix the Cat in\u00a0that firstly . . . ahem, how do I put this without upsetting those of you who&#8217;ve been asleep at the back of the class these last few months? \u00a0. . .\u00a0\u00a0 apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/c24385ce-85ef-11de-98de-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">they are both black<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Are such superficialities bordering on racism the content of lectures these days at Harvard Business School?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shame that some adult at the FT did not object before publication.<br \/>\nAnd, as further evidence of his tin-ear for conversation in the public square, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/niall-ferguson\/why-my-comparing-obama-to_b_257573.html\" target=\"_blank\">his defence is a doubling-down<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never thought much of\u00a0historian Niall Ferguson&#8217;s ideas.\u00a0\u00a0 For years he has been arguing that America and the West suffer from too little religion, while simultaneously arguing that the Islamic world suffers from too much.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One is tempted to ask for this spiritual\u00a0Laffer Curve to be quantified and differentiated, so that we can determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","p1","y2009","m08","d13","h19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}