{"id":2058,"date":"2008-07-13T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T13:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2008-07-13T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T14:24:19","slug":"its-getting-crowded-under-that-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s getting crowded under that bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barak Obama threw one of the Kings of Comedy under the bus Friday night according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Entertainment_News\/2008\/07\/12\/Obama_team_reacts_to_Bernie_Mac_jokes\/UPI-73991215885943\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Press International<\/a>. Bernie Mac made some off-color jokes during an Obama fund raiser (that&#8217;s kind of what Bernie Mac does for a living, isn&#8217;t it?) and the crowd booed and heckled him a bit. Then Obama chastized him;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Senator Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn&#8217;t condone these statements and believes what was said was inappropriate,&#8221; the campaign team said.<\/p>\n<p>Obama thanked the comedian for the introduction, but later offered a mixed response to the questionable material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act,&#8221; Obama said after calling for increased equality. &#8220;This is a family affair. &#8230; I&#8217;m just messing with you, man.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeez, Obama picked Bernie Mac to perform, and that&#8217;s the kind of material Bernie uses in his act. If there&#8217;s any act that needs cleaning up, it&#8217;s Barack for his poor judgment. And then he tries having it both ways with his &#8220;I&#8217;m just messing with you, man&#8221; schtick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be real reticent  about accepting a job in the Obama Administration &#8211; he&#8217;s going to leave a lot of corpses behind him if his campaign is any indication of how he&#8217;ll treat his cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barak Obama threw one of the Kings of Comedy under the bus Friday night according to &hellip; <a title=\"It&#8217;s getting crowded under that bus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2058\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s getting crowded under that bus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}