{"id":4151,"date":"2010-11-30T06:54:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T10:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2010-11-30T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T10:54:27","slug":"obama-bad-negotiator-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/11\/30\/obama-bad-negotiator-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Premature Concession Syndrome — A Remedial Limerick"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with President Obama: He suffers from PCS (Premature Concession Syndrome.) The latest example is his proposed federal employee wage freeze<\/a>. But as Rachel Maddow<\/a> said last night in her Charlie Brown<\/em> commentary: “This White House consistently gives up its concessions at the start, before getting anything in return.”<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping this open limerick to President Obama helps:<\/p>\n

Premature Concession Syndrome \u2014 A Remedial Limerick
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Obama, it’s Law 101
\nThat in deal making don’t jump the gun:
\nNever give stuff away
\nWith the hope that one day
\nYou might get something back — this ain’t done.<\/p>\n

Your opponent will simply want more.
\nHe will threaten to walk out the door
\nUnless you accede
\nTo his limitless greed.
\nLearn this rule or you never will score.<\/p>\n

You claim that you earned a JD.
\nI’ve got one of my own, so you see
\nWhy I don’t understand
\nHow you fail to demand
\nQuid pro quo from the damn GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with President Obama: He suffers from PCS (Premature Concession Syndrome.) The latest example is his proposed federal employee wage freeze. But as Rachel Maddow said last night in her Charlie Brown commentary: “This White House consistently gives up its concessions at the start, before getting anything in return.” Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,20,154,6,7,3,162,9,467,17],"tags":[2792,481,1458,457,781,702,1459],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-gop-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-rachel-maddow","category-republicans","category-washington","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-bipartisanship","tag-charlie-brown","tag-concessions","tag-negotiation","tag-republicans-humor","tag-wage-freeze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}