{"id":186223,"date":"2014-03-30T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/30\/obama-does-zen-he-learns-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:16:00","slug":"obama-does-zen-he-learns-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/03\/30\/obama-does-zen-he-learns-the-sound-of-one-hand-clapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Does Zen:  He Learns the Sound of One Hand Clapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"293\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mVFrdWIs2LI\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>And even that guy sounds profoundly unenthusiastic<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Barack Obama had a joint news conference with the Dutch PM, and when he talked about American support for human rights, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2014\/03\/26\/lone-person-awkwardly-slow-claps-at-conclusion-of-obama-summit-remarks\/\">audience response was profoundly underwhelming<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Responding to a question at The Hague\u2019s for the Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama concluded the event with an anti-climactic few moments in which he looks to Prime Minister Rutte, seemingly expectant of some way to wrap-up the event without applause.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe good news is that I\u2019m very confident that it can be achieved, and I\u2019m also confident that the core values that America has always believed in, in terms of privacy, rule of law, individual rights; that has guided the United States for many years and will continue to guide us into the future,\u201d Obama concluded, before nodding and looking to Prime Minister Rutte.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Obama is seen nodding at Prime Minister Rutte again, seeking confirmation that the conference has ended he says, \u201cokay.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Despite only the rustling sounds of people standing to exit, a single person can be heard slowly \u2013 but steadily \u2013 patting out a few claps to conclude the event.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThank you very much everybody, thank you again,\u201d says the president, as he walks off stage with Prime Minister Rutte.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trust me, the when you slice the bullsh%$ <b>that<\/b> thick, people notice.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that people in the current establishment in DC realize just how compromised our image is world wide, and how much damage this will do to future attempts to prosecute our agenda in a multilateral manner.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest threat to the United States these days are our state security and foreign policy apparatuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And even that guy sounds profoundly unenthusiastic Barack Obama had a joint news conference with the Dutch PM, and when he talked about American support for human rights, the audience response was profoundly underwhelming: Responding to a question at The Hague\u2019s for the Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama concluded the event with an anti-climactic few &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186223"}],"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=186223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}