{"id":1132,"date":"2010-09-20T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2010-09-20T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:23:51","slug":"quite-frankly-mr-president-im-exhausted-of-defending-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/quite-frankly-mr-president-im-exhausted-of-defending-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Quite Frankly, Mr. President, I&#8217;m Exhausted Of Defending You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently, at a so-called CNBC Town Hall, a quondam Obot told Barack Obama to his face:<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I&#8217;m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for. <\/p>\n<p>My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives, but, quite frankly, it&#8217;s starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we&#8217;re headed again, and, quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly. Is this my new reality?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Real Clear Politics hasn&#8217;t yet made the priceless video embeddable, but you can &#8212; and should &#8212; watch it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2010\/09\/20\/cnbc_town_hall_questioner_to_obama_im_exhausted_of_defending_you.html\">here<\/a>. It will make you laugh, or it will make you cry. <\/p>\n<p>Just incidentally, if you want to get drunk while watching it, try this drinking game: take a guzzle of beer (or Evan Williams) every time she says &#8220;quite frankly,&#8221; and I virtually guarantee you that by the end of it, you&#8217;ll be shit-faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just recently, at a so-called CNBC Town Hall, a quondam Obot told Barack Obama to his face: I&#8217;m one of your middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I&#8217;m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for. My husband and I have joked for years that we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2010\/09\/quite-frankly-mr-president-im-exhausted-of-defending-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Quite Frankly, Mr. President, I&#8217;m Exhausted Of Defending You&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[273],"tags":[1097,1098,1095,1096,1101,1100,1099],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}