{"id":16419,"date":"2017-03-06T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2017-03-06T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T21:51:21","slug":"nixon-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/03\/06\/nixon-now-3\/","title":{"rendered":"nixon now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bushmissmething-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"bushmissmething\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bushmissmething-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/bushmissmething.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the challenge comes in trying to make this message, the message of this sign, something of not a reality.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sign that, at the time it made news near the beginning of the Obama Administration begged the question &#8220;Is this&#8230; Pro Obama, or anti-Obama?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It seemed to be readable in both ways.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say it, but Bush never slid to the realm of &#8220;Impeach HIM!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I recall musing as his administration stumbled toward the end of the second term in a lame-duck manner of how we might reshape the government to allow a new president &#8212; one of the same party not connected to the current occupant &#8212; if his approval rating falls into the 30s for a sustained manner of time.<\/p>\n<p>But he sustained himself and knew he was the most admired and least admired man in America&#8230; by dent of his position&#8230; and could persist accordingly.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a low threshold of respectability the current figure in the White House isn&#8217;t able to rise to.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s &#8220;Andrew Jackson&#8221; Democracy for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose the challenge comes in trying to make this message, the message of this sign, something of not a reality.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sign that, at the time it made news near the beginning of the Obama Administration begged the question &#8220;Is this&#8230; Pro Obama, or anti-Obama?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It seemed to be readable in both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16421,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions\/16421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}