{"id":2819,"date":"2009-01-15T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T01:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2009-01-15T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:20:20","slug":"so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"so long…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I had the strangest sensation just now. I tried to watch Bush’s goodbye speech [I failed, leaving somewhere in the middle, not from anger but from boredom]. But while I  was watching, I noticed that his voice didn’t quite sound right. At first, I thought it was because he was reading a speech from the teleprompter. I never listen to his speeches. I read them later as transcripts so I only hear him in press conferences or occasionally in interviews. <\/div>\n

But it wasn’t that. His voice sounded familiar, like someone else. I closed my eyes and listened, and it was immediately apparent. He sounded exactly like Ronald Reagan! If you see a replay, try it. It was uncanny. It’s possible that my [not unconscious] association of Bush\/Cheney with Reagan\/Bush had something to do with it. I considered that he was either channeling Reagan or it was a reincartation, but I guess it was just something in my head.<\/p>\n

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I felt empty while he was talking. He’s just a guy who should have never been in the White House except as his father’s son visiting when he was younger. It’s a damn shame that he couldn’t find some buisness that he could’ve been successful in to have a career that protected him from politics, or protected us from him. Maybe he could have been a sportscaster [though those people usually start out in sports]. He could’ve maybe run a mountain bike shop. He seems to enjoy that kind of thing. I remember a guy who ran a bait shop where fishermen hung out near our house who was very much like Bush. He could have done that. But not President of the United States. He didn’t have a chance. Nor did we. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the strangest sensation just now. I tried to watch Bush’s goodbye speech [I failed, leaving somewhere in the middle, not from anger but from boredom]. But while I  was watching, I noticed that his voice didn’t quite sound right. At first, I thought it was because he was reading a speech from the […]<\/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-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}