{"id":1350,"date":"2010-05-02T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T09:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2010-05-02T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T09:24:12","slug":"obamas-correspondents-dinner-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/02\/obamas-correspondents-dinner-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Correspondents’ Dinner Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom122007_Painting_Painting\"<\/a> I\u2019ve heard that the right wing is trying to compare Obama attending the Correspondents\u2019 Dinner with Crawford Caligula\u2019s fiddling while New Orleans drowned.<\/font><\/p>\n

First, once we realized that BP had lied about the size and severity of this disaster, ordained in Cheney\u2019s secret meetings with oil company executives, Obama has deployed competent people to deal with the disaster to the maximum extent possible.  Except for a wishy-washy position on offshore drilling, his response has been praiseworthy.<\/font><\/p>\n

Second, there is nothing that his failure to attend the dinner could have done to lessen the plight of Gulf Coast residents.<\/font><\/p>\n

I intended to watch, but alas, I was so tired I slept through the whole thing.  Fortunately I found his speech in case you missed it too.<\/font><\/p>\n

Part One<\/font><\/p>\n

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Part Two<\/font><\/p>\n

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I think Obama was both funny and wise in what he said.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve heard that the right wing is trying to compare Obama attending the Correspondents\u2019 Dinner with Crawford Caligula\u2019s fiddling while New Orleans drowned. First, once we realized that BP had lied about the size and severity of this disaster, ordained in Cheney\u2019s secret meetings with oil company executives, Obama has deployed competent people to deal […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-plus","category-19-id","category-141-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}