{"id":176,"date":"2007-10-30T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/30\/message-to-obama-hammer-dont-stammer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T05:36:39","slug":"message-to-obama-hammer-dont-stammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/10\/30\/message-to-obama-hammer-dont-stammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Message to Obama: Hammer! Don&#8217;t Stammer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is starting to get silly. It seems like every other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/28obama.html\">Barack Obama promises to bolster his lagging poll numbers by changing his campaign style and getting tough on Hillary Clinton.<\/a>\u00a0 But even when Obama tries to challenge Hillary, his speech is so droning, so\u00a0professorial, so lacking in emotion, that his &#8220;attacks&#8221; fall flat.\u00a0 Hell, Obama often sounds like John Kerry on Quaaludes.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0haiku:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be more forceful<br \/>\nAgainst Hillary Clinton.<br \/>\nI mean it this time.<\/p>\n<p>(Inspired in part by <a href=\"http:\/\/onebreathpoetry.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/week-74-change.html\">this haiku prompt<\/a>. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/news_haiku.html\">more of my news haiku here.<\/a>) [tags]Barack Obama Poem, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Campaign Humor, Election Humor[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is starting to get silly. It seems like every other day, Barack Obama promises to bolster his lagging poll numbers by changing his campaign style and getting tough on Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 But even when Obama tries to challenge Hillary, his speech is so droning, so\u00a0professorial, so lacking in emotion, that his &#8220;attacks&#8221; fall flat.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,72,21,96,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-hillary-clinton","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}