{"id":17595,"date":"2010-01-29T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_obamas_poetic_words_not_enough_to_rescue_presidency\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:40:57","slug":"telegraph_obamas_poetic_words_not_enough_to_rescue_presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17595","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph: Obama&#39;s poetic words not enough to rescue presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the length of the speech &#8211; it lasted 70 minutes, making it the longest since he shot to national attention with his perfectly pitched address at the 2004 Democratic convention &#8211; it was short on detail. At times it seemed like a laundry list of proposals that could have been issued at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Obama laughed a bit at himself. This was uncharacteristic and disarming. But he insisted that he would press on. &#8220;We don&#8217;t quit,&#8221; he said as he reached his final crescendo. &#8220;I don&#8217;t quit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite some attempts at optimism, Mr Obama&#8217;s underlying message was the same as his campaign theme &#8211; that Washington is broken. At the end of the speech, however, no one was any the wiser as to whether he even knows how to fix it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/7095921\/State-of-the-Union-Obamas-poetic-words-not-enough-to-rescue-presidency.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the length of the speech &#8211; it lasted 70 minutes, making it the longest since he shot to national attention with his perfectly pitched address at the 2004 Democratic convention &#8211; it was short on detail. At times it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17595\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,616,151,667],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}