{"id":194432,"date":"2008-09-23T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/23\/comedic-genius\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:23:00","slug":"comedic-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/23\/comedic-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedic Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guy owes me a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">whole box<\/span> of screen cleaners<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.1001words.com\/2008\/09\/obama-to-nation-im-outta-here.html\">Obama to Nation: \u201cF$#@ this sh#@, I\u2019m outta here\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>September 19, 2008 at 12:21 am \u00b7 Filed under political humor<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of an epic financial meltdown that threatens to derail the U.S. economy for years, Barack Obama announced he was ending his run for President of the United States, declaring to a stunned nation, \u201cMan, this is bullsh#@.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a boisterous and hastily-called press conference, Obama detailed his reasons for the decision. \u201cI was prepared to fight global warming, reform the health care system, repair our crumbling roads, create a 21st century electric grid, find Bin Laden, end the war in Iraq, and bring peace to Israel and the Palestinians. But now you tell me I have to clean up the worst financial mess since the Great Depression too? One that\u2019s going to plunge our economy into a recession for most of my administration while I take the blame? F$#@ that. That\u2019s f$#@ing ridiculous. You guys clean up your own sh#@. I\u2019m outta here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest, in all its profane glory, at the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy owes me a whole box of screen cleaners Obama to Nation: \u201cF$#@ this sh#@, I\u2019m outta here\u201d September 19, 2008 at 12:21 am \u00b7 Filed under political humor In the wake of an epic financial meltdown that threatens to derail the U.S. economy for years, Barack Obama announced he was ending his run &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1142,1002,1048,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-barack-obama","category-good-writing","category-humor","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194432"}],"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=194432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}