{"id":1300,"date":"2009-12-01T12:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2009-12-01T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T17:09:50","slug":"will-obama-out-bs-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/will-obama-out-bs-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama Out-BS Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals&#8217; hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. <\/p>\n<p>The fact that Obama is following in Bush&#8217;s footsteps &#8211; talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single catcall &#8211; is a sign of how archaic hope for change and reform has become. <\/p>\n<p>If Obama honestly admitted that he is sending American boys to die to help assure the profits of drug kingpins like Karzai&#8217;s brother, I could at least respect the president&#8217;s candor.<\/p>\n<p>But the odds of truth breaking out during Obama&#8217;s visit to West Point are slim and none &#8211; and &#8220;Slim just left town,&#8221; as Dan Rather says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals&#8217; hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world. 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