{"id":41,"date":"2009-04-28T17:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:34:04","slug":"the-good-the-bad-and-the-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"The Good, The Bad and The Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last 100 days have gone by quickly.\u00a0 Everyone else is grading the prez so so I am going to jump on the boat and do it, too!\u00a0 I will start with the good:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You, your wife and kids are a good example what a family should be.<\/li>\n<li>You engage the public, attempt to maintain communication.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re a good example of health and fitness (eh, except for the smoking).<\/li>\n<li>You made a good decision on handling the pirates, even though you never came out with a strong statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u00a0 The media will add a bunch of other stuff to that list and it all may seem good on the surface, but it will be political smoke and mirrors.\u00a0 Also, a lot of what they will add will result in greater national debt (with no real return for our money), a back-breaking tax burden for future generations and money being siphoned off to where it was never intended to go.\u00a0 On with the bad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What happened to transparency?\u00a0 Why were we not able to view bills before they were voted on?<\/li>\n<li>The outlandish, inexcusable stimulus packages which in no way have come to benefit the people, only your financiers.<\/li>\n<li>Your choices for your cabinet that had to bail on you.\u00a0 What in the world was going on there?<\/li>\n<li>Cronyism was supposed to end.\u00a0 Nope.<\/li>\n<li>Wow, you upheld the warrantless wiretapping stuff that the previous administration championed.<\/li>\n<li>What happened to bipartisanship?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u00a0 Don\u2019t want to nag too much at once.\u00a0 I give you a C- for an overall grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last 100 days have gone by quickly.\u00a0 Everyone else is grading the prez so so I am going to jump on the boat and do it, too!\u00a0 I will start with the good: You, your wife and kids are a good example what a family should be. You engage the public, attempt to maintain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}