{"id":139,"date":"2009-05-21T17:17:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-05-21T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:17:14","slug":"left-right-agree-obama-is-a-disciple-of-bushcheneyrove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/left-right-agree-obama-is-a-disciple-of-bushcheneyrove\/","title":{"rendered":"Left &#038; Right Agree: Obama is a disciple of Bush\/Cheney\/Rove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we predicted, He&#8217;s all show &amp; no go. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/20\/opinion\/20dowd.html\">Left<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124286200693341141.html\">Right<\/a> are in firm agreement on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/22obama.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I think Obama is easily intimidated. Intimidated by both the bullying brass and the torturers who still lurk in the halls of power.<\/p>\n<p>He always reminded me of another back-stabbing politician, animated by &#8220;the projection of appealing images.&#8221; (Thanks for that great quote, Karl!) That politician, Madison Mayor David J. Cieslewicz, not only stabs his supporters in the back, he <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofmadison.com\/mayor\/blog\/index.cfm?Id=427\">smiles graciously as he twists the shiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we predicted, He&#8217;s all show &amp; no go. And the Left and the Right are in firm agreement on this. Frankly, I think Obama is easily intimidated. Intimidated by both the bullying brass and the torturers who still lurk in the halls of power. He always reminded me of another back-stabbing politician, animated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,12,13,1],"tags":[63,64,65,66,29,62],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-back-stabbing-politicians","tag-barack-obama","tag-karl-rove","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-mayor-pave","tag-projection-of-appealing-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}