{"id":7320,"date":"2009-01-24T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7320"},"modified":"2009-01-25T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T15:47:02","slug":"obamas-not-devisive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7320","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s not divisive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was stunned when I saw this headline at Yahoo\/Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n

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The first paragraph reads;<\/p>\n

Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush’s unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When in the last week has he not been divisive? He defends his Treasury Secretary for not paying his taxes<\/a>. Obama signed an Executive Order that freed up taxpayer money for committing abortions<\/a> overseas. He signed an Executive Order to close Guantanamo<\/a>. He forbids the hiring of K Street lobbyists and the next day hires one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s a more complete list at William Teach’s Pirate Cove<\/a> and more at Blatherings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How are none of those things divisive? They’re the most controversial subjects in today’s discourse and he took a partisan and ideological stand on each issue.<\/p>\n

The AP ends the article like this;<\/p>\n

In one Oval Office ceremony, Obama went through each executive order as he signed them, reading parts of each and methodically explaining them. He even halted a few times to ask for clarification from his White House counsel. That sort of deferral to someone else in a public setting and admission of a less-than-perfect command of the facts was never Bush’s style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe it’s because Bush knew what he was signing before he went out in public. Whereas Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing from moment-to-moment. Can you imagine how the AP would have written the incident if President Bush had asked his counsel questions about the document he was about to sign in a public ceremony?<\/p>\n

AP sucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was stunned when I saw this headline at Yahoo\/Associated Press; The first paragraph reads; Barack … Obama’s not divisive?<\/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":[46,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320","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=7320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}