{"id":192924,"date":"2009-02-04T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/04\/adult-in-charge\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:05:00","slug":"adult-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/02\/04\/adult-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/04obama.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">this quote<\/a> from an interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In evening interviews on broadcast and cable television networks, Mr. Obama said he took responsibility for the errors. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m frustrated with myself, with our team,\u201d he told NBC, \u201cbut ultimately my job is to get this thing back on track because what we need to focus on is a deteriorating economy and getting people back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI\u2019m here on television saying <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-variant: small-caps;font-size:180%;\" >I screwed up<\/span> and that\u2019s part of the era of responsibility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a second&#8230;.A president admitting error&#8230;.Like a non psychopathic adult&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note this quote from an interview: In evening interviews on broadcast and cable television networks, Mr. Obama said he took responsibility for the errors. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m frustrated with myself, with our team,\u201d he told NBC, \u201cbut ultimately my job is to get this thing back on track because what we need to focus on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192924"}],"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=192924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}