{"id":5901,"date":"2011-04-20T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2011-04-20T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:35:21","slug":"obama-doesnt-know-jack-or-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=5901","title":{"rendered":"Obama Doesn&#8217;t Know Jack. Or Texas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interview that <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2011\/04\/obama-to-reporter-let-me-finish-my-answers-next-time-\/1\">Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas<\/a> conducted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/politico44\/perm\/0411\/nobody_interrupts_potus_480c750d-358b-487e-8416-24b1e907c727.html\">with Obama<\/a> has been getting <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/obama-texas-has-always-been-pretty.html\">a lot of attention<\/a>. A lot of it has centered on Obama&#8217;s visible testiness at the questions, but I&#8217;d like to point out his baffling ignorance of Texas history:<\/p>\n<li>He stated that he lost Texas by &#8220;a few percentage points&#8221; in 2008 when it was actually closer to 12%.\n<li>He stated that Texas has &#8220;always&#8221; been a Republican state, which displays an amazing ignorance not just of Texas history, but of the entire post-Civil War era, in which Democrats overwhelmingly dominated the Jim Crow-era states of the old Confederacy, Texas included. In fact, Texas was considered a one-party Democratic state up until John Tower won the special election to fill Lyndon Baines Johnson&#8217;s unexpired Senate term in 1961.\n<\/li>\n<p>The overall thrust of the interview is why Obama isn&#8217;t more popular in Texas. &#8220;Too big a spender, too liberal, too incompetent, too prickly, and too out-of-touch&#8221; all cover it rather nicely, but you can add &#8220;appallingly ignorant of basic historical facts&#8221; to that list&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview that Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas conducted with Obama has been getting a lot of attention. A lot of it has centered on Obama&#8217;s visible testiness at the questions, but I&#8217;d like to point out his baffling ignorance of Texas history: He stated that he lost Texas by &#8220;a few percentage points&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,11,18,12],"tags":[1122,1123,1124,64,2861],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-elections","category-media-watch","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-brad-watson","tag-john-tower","tag-lyndon-baines-johnson","tag-obama","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901","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=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5918,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions\/5918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}