{"id":2031,"date":"2008-04-09T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/crocker-as-lobbyist\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T16:41:46","slug":"crocker-as-lobbyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/crocker-as-lobbyist\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocker as lobbyist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">I don&#8217;t mind Ryan Crocker having a strong opinion about what we should do in Iraq &#8211; whether he was picked because of his opinion, or he has his opinions because he was picked, or that it&#8217;s something that is just what he thinks. But I do mind him being a lobbyist &#8211; which is what his opening statement was about today. He lectured us that we couldn&#8217;t draw down any. <strong>Not his job!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">He&#8217;s not thinking about this graph&#8230; <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" vspace=\"7\" height=\"322\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/cost.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">Crocker and Petraeus throw around terms like <strong>battlefield geometry<\/strong> and <strong>diplomatic calculus<\/strong>, but it would seem that they&#8217;re overlooking <strong>simple arithmetic<\/strong>, adding up the costs of their war&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t mind Ryan Crocker having a strong opinion about what we should do in Iraq &#8211; whether he was picked because of his opinion, or he has his opinions because he was picked, or that it&#8217;s something that is just what he thinks. But I do mind him being a lobbyist &#8211; which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}