{"id":4748,"date":"2015-01-21T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2015-01-21T20:31:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T01:31:53","slug":"weve-let-the-clowns-come-way-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve Let The Clowns Come Way Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"posttitle\"><a class=\"entry-title\" title=\"We\u2019ve Let The Clowns Come Way Too Far\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theautomaticearth.com\/weve-let-the-clowns-come-way-too-far\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">We\u2019ve Let The Clowns Come Way Too Far<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s State of the Union, Obama said The \u2018Shadow Of Crisis Has Passed\u2019, and the one and the only thing I thought was: \u2018Good, so now we can tackle the crisis itself?!\u2019. If speeches like the SOTU last night, and the reactions to it, make anything clear, it\u2019s that the PR guys won the fight against critical thinking. Sure, there are people for whom that shadow has passed, but a president is supposed to be there for all Americans, not just for those who finance his campaigns and those of his successors.<\/p>\n<p>And for most Americans, the shadow hasn\u2019t passed at all, and the crisis certainly hasn\u2019t. And hollow promises to help the middle class are not going to change anything about that. It\u2019s an elite game, and all others are left to fend for themselves. For now that remains hidden behind the veil of over 50% of Americans receiving some kind of government benefit, but that won\u2019t last. We may have some idea of how much richer the rich are getting, and even that is a stretch, but we have much less idea of how much the poor got poorer.<\/p>\n<p>And the President, of all Americans, won\u2019t tell us, he\u2019d rather hail his \u2018achievements\u2019 as prepared and blown out of all proportions by his spin team. His political \u2018adversaries\u2019, who play their role of \u2018hating\u2019 him only halfway convincingly, won\u2019t call him on the spin, because they have nothing to gain from trying to blow up the newfangled American Dream.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve Let The Clowns Come Way Too Far In yesterday\u2019s State of the Union, Obama said The \u2018Shadow Of Crisis Has Passed\u2019, and the one and the only thing I thought was: \u2018Good, so now we can tackle the crisis itself?!\u2019. If speeches like the SOTU last night, and the reactions to it, make anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[2822,1238,1044,1161,661,2811],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-american-dream","tag-barak-obama","tag-mario-draghi","tag-public-relations","tag-qe","tag-sotu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}