{"id":1714,"date":"2009-09-08T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2009-09-08T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:21:56","slug":"rebuttal-to-the-president-and-the-extension-of-the-silly-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"Rebuttal to the president and the extension of the silly season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Chicago friends, author and professional smart aleck <a href=\"http:\/\/adamselzer.com\/\">Adam Selzer<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/adamselzer.livejournal.com\/627821.html\">the best rebuttal<\/a> to the President&#8217;s school comments today. The theme? &#8220;Responsibility is for squares. Slack off, buster!&#8221; (taken from one of Adam&#8217;s FB notes&#8211;not in his rebuttal, but it captures the essence) <\/p>\n<p>In the nutty wing of the loyal opposition, the next criticisms of the president:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican Party of Florida chair Jim Greer will criticize Obama for &#8220;socialist breathing.&#8221; Then, when he is presented a tape of what Obama actually sounds like when asleep, will proclaim, &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s okay breathing, but he changed his respiration to acceptable, American breathing after my criticism!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Radio\/tv show host Glenn Beck will attack Bo as &#8220;the most racist dog in America, or at least the most vicious Portguese water dog in America, and probably an illegal alien as well. Maybe a Muslim terrorist illegal alien Portguese water dog who is waiting for us all to fall asleep.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most serious (and legitimate) criticism I expect of the speech: too long. He was lucky he was in front of high school students, though fourth-graders would also have sat for the entire speech. But kindergarten students or seventh graders? He&#8217;d have had no chance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my Chicago friends, author and professional smart aleck Adam Selzer, has the best rebuttal to the President&#8217;s school comments today. The theme? &#8220;Responsibility is for squares. Slack off, buster!&#8221; (taken from one of Adam&#8217;s FB notes&#8211;not in his rebuttal, but it captures the essence) In the nutty wing of the loyal opposition, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}