{"id":9978,"date":"2017-01-10T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2017-01-10T23:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T04:20:02","slug":"2-cents-obamas-farewell-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/10\/2-cents-obamas-farewell-address\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2 Cents on Obama&#8217;s Farewell Address"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama: &quot;&quot;We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists.&quot;  Is he counting the wedding parties he droned?  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819009614977056768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama invokes &quot;The rule of law that holds leaders accountable.&quot;  He favors resuming that on January 20, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819009273367764992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama quotes Washington&#39;s Farewell Address &#8211; omits GW&#39;s passage on political parties as nests of weasels &amp; scumballs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819011474752409601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama: &quot;When trust in our institutions is low&#8230;&quot; &#8211; he was an innocent bystander since 2008, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819010765004869632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Obama praises supporters-  &quot;you guarded against cynicism&quot; &#8211; Obama did not make it easy.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819014053024727040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After all of Obama&#39;s executive orders, disappointed he did not exit stage to Rolling Stones&#39; &quot;Under My Thumb&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Bovard (@JimBovard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\/status\/819014945207709700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best epithet for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FarewellObama?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FarewellObama<\/a> speech &#8211; &quot;Self-government is flattered to destroy self-government.&quot; Sen. 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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9978\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}