{"id":177550,"date":"2019-08-20T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/20\/quote-of-the-day-16\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T19:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:50:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/20\/quote-of-the-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Central to this narrative is the presentation of the difference between Trump and Obama as akin to the difference between Hitler and Gandhi. A better analogy \u2013 especially when it comes to foreign policy \u2013 would be the difference between John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who was known for dressing up as a clown at public events, and Ted Bundy, the tall, handsome serial killer who enticed his victims into his car with his charm and good looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/08\/20\/bidens-association-with-obamas-toxic-legacy\/\">Peter Bolton<\/a> at <i>Counter Punch<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s writing about how Joe Biden has stapled himself to Barack Obama&#8217;s increasingly dubious legacy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderfully evocative turn of phrase. <\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/08\/200pm-water-cooler-8-20-2019.html\">Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central to this narrative is the presentation of the difference between Trump and Obama as akin to the difference between Hitler and Gandhi. A better analogy \u2013 especially when it comes to foreign policy \u2013 would be the difference between John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer who was known for dressing up as a clown &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[491,464,389,405],"class_list":["post-177550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-barack-obama","tag-good-writing","tag-history","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}