{"id":309,"date":"2004-01-21T05:55:48","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T09:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=309"},"modified":"2004-01-21T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2004-01-21T09:55:48","slug":"sotu-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"SOTU: First impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He lied about the state of the union, spun the war on terror lying explicitly about the constitutional process in Afghanistan and what it portends for its citizens, proposed more and more spending while calling for severe budget cuts insinuating he&#8217;ll be tapping into SS to pay for his war programmes, and speaking of &#8216;programmes&#8217; could his rhetoric have been any more shameless with respect to Iraq&#8217;s potential to harm based on them?  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what offended me more.  The obviously staged applause or George&#8217;s curious smirk no matter what subject he was talking about, including the troops and the situation in Iraq.  There were times he appeared he could barely stifle an outright laugh.  Was he medicated or is his sense of propriety really equivalent to a two-year old&#8217;s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lied about the state of the union, spun the war on terror lying explicitly about the constitutional process in Afghanistan and what it portends for its citizens, proposed more and more spending while calling for severe budget cuts insinuating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}