{"id":3475,"date":"2009-09-09T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T01:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2009-09-09T21:38:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T01:38:20","slug":"the-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/09\/the-speech-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the speech&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"218\" border=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/obamacare.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I don&#8217;t know whether he moved a single vote with that speech, but he couldn&#8217;t have given it a better shot. I liked the plan and thought he presented it clearly. Barack Obama is an remarkable person. We&#8217;re just so lucky to have him right now. And he&#8217;s a work in progress, learning every day how to weather the absolutely unprecedented attacks that have dogged him from day one. And there is simply no right-thinking reason to oppose his health care plan.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">The speech was directed to the American people, not to Congress. And that&#8217;s the right place to aim his efforts. He can&#8217;t force the Republicans to act like gentlemen, but the voters can. I loved the speech as I love him. No matter what the outcome of this fight or his Presidency, I feel privileged, even honored, to be alive at a time when I can hear the words of Barack Obama as he champions the &quot;American Character.&quot; He is a person of great integrity. If people can&#8217;t see that, heaven help us&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know whether he moved a single vote with that speech, but he couldn&#8217;t have given it a better shot. I liked the plan and thought he presented it clearly. Barack Obama is an remarkable person. We&#8217;re just so lucky to have him right now. And he&#8217;s a work in progress, learning every day [&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-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}