{"id":198681,"date":"2007-10-18T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/quote-of-the-day-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2007-10-18T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T02:59:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/18\/quote-of-the-day-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/10\/obama_compares_hillary_to_bush.php\">Barack Obama on Jay Leno<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare &#8216;Mission Accomplished&#8217; a little too soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pithy, quotable, and profoundly damning.  <\/p>\n<p>The answer was in response to statements about the inevitability of Hillary, and that was a delightfully sharp shiv.  I&#8217;d like to see some more from Obama, because I still have doubts about his willingness to do it, as Sean Connery said in <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Untouchables<\/span>, &#8220;The Chicago Way&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama on Jay Leno: Hillary is not the first politician in Washington to declare &#8216;Mission Accomplished&#8217; a little too soon. Pithy, quotable, and profoundly damning. The answer was in response to statements about the inevitability of Hillary, and that was a delightfully sharp shiv. I&#8217;d like to see some more from Obama, because I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681"}],"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=198681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}