{"id":2629,"date":"2011-03-28T13:40:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:40:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T18:40:28","slug":"libya-speech-obamas-biggest-buncombe-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/28\/libya-speech-obamas-biggest-buncombe-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Speech: Obama&#8217;s Biggest Buncombe Yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Obama break all his past records for BS tonight when he gives his speech on Libya at 7:30 pm? (Eastern)<\/p>\n<p>He will be speaking to the most servile audience he could find &#8211; uniformed military officers at the National Defense University.   The room will be full of people who are owned lock, stock, and barrel by the government.  The officers have spent their lives working for Uncle Sam, and they know that a single ill-time hoot during Obama\u2019s talk could end their careers.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, who also used the uniformed officers as stage props for his most deceptive foreign policy addresses. <\/p>\n<p>It is unfortunate that there is not a pervasive backlash against this type of exploitation. There no longer seems to be any BS radar regarding presidents and warring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Obama break all his past records for BS tonight when he gives his speech on Libya at 7:30 pm? (Eastern) He will be speaking to the most servile audience he could find &#8211; uniformed military officers at the National Defense University. 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