{"id":111,"date":"2008-04-13T23:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T04:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:30","slug":"obama-told-the-truth-thanks-hillary-for-pointing-that-out-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/obama-told-the-truth-thanks-hillary-for-pointing-that-out-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama told the truth. Thanks, Hillary, for pointing that out to us."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\">Dave Winer<\/a> mentioned that Obama was calling Pennsylvanians&#8217; &#8211; and the nation&#8217;s &#8211; attention to the fact that it&#8217;s true that rural American people are angry and bitter as a result of patiently waiting 25 years for politicians they elect to stop selling them out and help them get their lives and their jobs back. I guess Obama became one of my heroes <strong>twice<\/strong> this weekend, because he told a really uncomfortable truth about American politics and refused to back off it. Then he admitted he was wrong for having made a poor choice of words when he originally made the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Actually admitted he was wrong and apologized. I thought I was going to faint.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like Hillary jumped as hard as she did onto the bandwagon playing the &#8216;Obama has made a mistake let&#8217;s crucify him&#8217;, song, because she&#8217;s made some pretty big mistakes of her own lately. What are those mistakes? Obama tells it much better than I can. Watch out for him saying at a bit after minute 4 that Hillary is making it sound like she&#8217;s Annie Oakley . . .<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NIxmi3e2Vmo&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NIxmi3e2Vmo&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/p>\n<p>More in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D901A22G3&#038;show_article=1\">AP article<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/4\/13\/204756\/822\/164\/495117\">DailyKos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Twitter Dave Winer mentioned that Obama was calling Pennsylvanians&#8217; &#8211; and the nation&#8217;s &#8211; attention to the fact that it&#8217;s true that rural American people are angry and bitter as a result of patiently waiting 25 years for politicians they elect to stop selling them out and help them get their lives and their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/obama-told-the-truth-thanks-hillary-for-pointing-that-out-to-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama told the truth. Thanks, Hillary, for pointing that out to us.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[101,98,97,100,99,102],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","tag-annie-oakley","tag-barack-obama","tag-dave-winer","tag-hillary","tag-obama","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}