Just making it to Friday coming back from vacation to Texas in the middle of August seems like it’s own victory condition…<\/p>\n
His bored-bird-in-a-gilded-cage attitude, the article said, \u201chas left him with few loyalists to effectively manage the issues erupting abroad and at home and could imperil his efforts to leave a legacy in his final stretch in office.”<\/p>\n
(snip)<\/p>\n
The extraordinary candidate turns out to be the most ordinary of men, frittering away precious time on the links. Unlike L.B.J., who devoured problems as though he were being chased by demons, Obama\u2019s main galvanizing impulse was to get himself elected.<\/p>\n
(snip)<\/p>\n
The sad part is that this is an ugly, confusing and frightening time at home and abroad, and the country needs its president to illuminate and lead, not sink into some petulant expression of his aloofness, where he regards himself as a party of his own and a victim of petty, needy, bickering egomaniacs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Russia is very upset street artists are turning Bulgarian monuments to the Soviet Union into American superheroes<\/a>.\n Enlightened, peaceful members of Temple University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine call a Jewish student a “kike” and punch him in the face<\/a>.\n Convicted felon Brett Kimberlin bitchslapped<\/a> by the court to the tune of $600 a week.\n “Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization of sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership<\/a>.”\n Washington Post<\/i>: “Libertarians silent on Mo. shooting.”<\/a> Except for all the ones who weren’t.\n Rick Perry grand juror was an active Democratic Party delegate<\/a> during indictment proceedings.\n Mike Ditka stands up<\/a> to the PC police.\n Saturday Night Live<\/i> announcer Don Pardo has died<\/a>.\n A tiny bit about Robin Williams.<\/a>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just making it to Friday coming back from vacation to Texas in the middle of August seems like it’s own victory condition… The Great Obama Meltdown. “Ferguson is the Great Society writ large because the Great Society convinced, and then reassured, black people that they were victims, taught them that being a victim and playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,49,31,1335,12],"tags":[384,1621,2435,1620,2872,2864,400,64,2880,200,131,2861],"class_list":["post-21049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-obama-scandals","category-texas","tag-anti-semitism","tag-brett-kimberlin","tag-bulgaria","tag-convicted-felon-brett-kimberlin","tag-crime","tag-democrats","tag-maureen-dowd","tag-obama","tag-obama-scandals","tag-rick-perry","tag-russia","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21057,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21049\/revisions\/21057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}