{"id":339,"date":"2010-06-15T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T18:47:13","slug":"poli-seer-prediction-for-obamas-bp-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Poli-seer Prediction For Obama&#8217;s BP Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how off I am regarding what PrezBO is going to tell us tonight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He will tell us what he thinks we want to hear.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;bad BP,&#8221; &#8220;BP, you&#8217;re going to pay,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve been on top of this.&#8221;\u00a0 All of which is lip service.\u00a0 He has done well at telling people what he thinks they want to hear.\u00a0 His actions, however, are a different story of course.<\/li>\n<li>He will announce new governmental positions for this and that.\u00a0 Of course, part of this whole problem was the people in positions (or recently fired) who were responsible for oversight.<\/li>\n<li>His main focus will not be the oil spill itself or how it will be fixed.\u00a0 The focus will be to use this emergency (eh, emergency to some of us, but apparently not him) to further his agendas, energy policy, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong.\u00a0 I am all for clean energy.\u00a0 I wish we used more wind, solar and nuclear.\u00a0 But I certainly don&#8217;t believe that anything other than this spill, its causes and aftermath, and those whose lives have been affected by it should be addressed in this speech.\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t see that being the case.\u00a0 I am going to predict that a good descriptor for this speech will be &#8220;redirection.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see how off I am regarding what PrezBO is going to tell us tonight: He will tell us what he thinks we want to hear.\u00a0 For example, &#8220;bad BP,&#8221; &#8220;BP, you&#8217;re going to pay,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ve been on top of this.&#8221;\u00a0 All of which is lip service.\u00a0 He has done well at telling people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}