{"id":190337,"date":"2009-12-08T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/08\/what-a-whiny-bitch-6\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:15:00","slug":"what-a-whiny-bitch-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/08\/what-a-whiny-bitch-6\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Whiny Bitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that Barack &#8220;Panders to Wingnuts&#8221; Obama, took it upon himself to call <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/71075-conyers-obama-told-me-to-stop-demeaning-him\">call Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers to ask him to stop &#8220;demeaning&#8221; him publicly disagreeing with him on issues like healthcare and Afghanistan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee chairman\u2019s criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In an interview with The Hill, Conyers said his opinions of Obama\u2019s policies on healthcare reform and the war in Afghanistan have not sat well with the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">According to the lawmaker, the president picked up the phone several weeks ago to  find out why  Conyers was \u201cdemeaning\u201d him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Obama\u2019s decision to challenge Conyers highlights a sensitivity to criticism the president has taken on the left. Conyers\u2019s critical remarks, many of which have been reported on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post, appear to have irritated the president, known for his calm demeanor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Conyers, the second-longest-serving member of the House, said, \u201c[Obama] called me and told me that he heard that I was demeaning him and I had to explain to him that it wasn\u2019t anything personal, it was an honest difference on the issues. And he said, \u2018Well, let\u2019s talk about it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that Conyers was the first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to endorse Obama, and spent much of 2007 and 2008 campaigning for him, but he is now saying things like, &#8220;Calling in generals and admirals to discuss troop strength is like me taking my youngest to McDonald\u2019s to ask if he likes french fries,&#8221; which is pretty funny, when you think of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it appears that Barack &#8220;Panders to Wingnuts&#8221; Obama, took it upon himself to call call Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers to ask him to stop &#8220;demeaning&#8221; him publicly disagreeing with him on issues like healthcare and Afghanistan: President Barack Obama recently called Rep. John Conyers Jr. to express his frustrations with the Judiciary Committee &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,998,1051,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-hypocrisy","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190337"}],"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=190337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}