{"id":5477,"date":"2011-09-01T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5477"},"modified":"2011-09-01T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:27:15","slug":"limerick-ode-to-a-speech-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/01\/limerick-ode-to-a-speech-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To A Speech Spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/11\/30\/obama-bad-negotiator-humor\/\">bemoaned <\/a>Obama&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/08\/01\/obama-failure-limerick\/\"> bad negotiation skills<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/04\/12\/obama-terrible-negotiator-humor\/\">the past.<\/a>  But the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/obama-boehner-speech-spat-should-worry-democrats\/2011\/08\/31\/gIQAlfgssJ_blog.html\">brouhaha<\/a> over a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/01\/us\/politics\/01obama.html\">date to speak before Congress<\/a> really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0911\/62505.html\">takes the cake:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To A Speech Spat<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Dear Obama, you waged a dumb fight<br \/>\nOver speech dates, and lost &#8212; not too bright!<br \/>\nTell me, how did you make<br \/>\nSuch a rookie mistake?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s no wonder your wins are so slight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve bemoaned Obama&#8217;s bad negotiation skills in the past. But the latest brouhaha over a date to speak before Congress really takes the cake: Limerick Ode To A Speech Spat By Madeleine Begun Kane Dear Obama, you waged a dumb fight Over speech dates, and lost &#8212; not too bright! Tell me, how did you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,15,36,6,1120,7,3,17],"tags":[2792,701,781,888,1656,1125],"class_list":["post-5477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress","category-john-boehner","category-political-limericks","category-political-speeches","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress-humor","tag-negotiation","tag-presidential-speech","tag-speech-spat","tag-speeches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477","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=5477"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5477\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}