{"id":188345,"date":"2010-10-17T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/17\/ive-never-called-him-stupid-but-now-i-will\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T22:36:00","slug":"ive-never-called-him-stupid-but-now-i-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/17\/ive-never-called-him-stupid-but-now-i-will\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Never Called Him Stupid, But Now I Will\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img38.imageshack.us\/img38\/1194\/bugsbunnymaroon8282501.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"300\" \/>Because Barack Obama just <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20101015\/pl_afp\/uspoliticsdiplomacy_20101015222922\">met with Condoleeza Rice to discuss foreign policy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>US President Barack Obama met Friday at the White House with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for a chat on foreign policy and her new memoir, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s next, meeting with Mary Mallon<sup>*<\/sup> to discuss food hygiene?<\/p>\n<p>Discussing haute cuisine, or for that matter how to win a World Cup, with the British?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the idea that you are going to have a friendly chat about foreign policy with the worst Secretary of State of all time, who served the worst President of all time, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hell, I cannot fathom a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">possible<\/span> reason for doing this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img216.imageshack.us\/img216\/4520\/15qdr938609019.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>What is going on here is a demonstration of either mind-boggling idiocy, or a truly nasty bit of psychological pathology that requires one to get approval from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">everyone<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Typhoid_Mary\">Typhoid Mary<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Barack Obama just met with Condoleeza Rice to discuss foreign policy: US President Barack Obama met Friday at the White House with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice for a chat on foreign policy and her new memoir, officials said. What&#8217;s next, meeting with Mary Mallon* to discuss food hygiene? Discussing haute cuisine, or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,964,1104,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-relations","category-psychology","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345"}],"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=188345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}