I can’t decide whether Bret Stephens is nuts or just a really bad satirist.<\/p>\n
I’m referring to his Wall Street Journal column entitled Obama’s Charm Isn’t Working Wonders Abroad<\/em>,<\/a> in which he recites a litany of foreign policy problems and wonders why Obama hasn’t solved them all yet. After all, it’s been twenty-one whole days!<\/p>\n Both Steve Benen<\/a> and Steve M.<\/a> assume Stephens suffers from unrealistic expectations. <\/p>\n But I’m wondering whether Stephens is trying to pass sarcasm off as satire. <\/p>\n And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n Obama Hasn’t Fixed Everything Yet? What’s Taking Him So Long? Poor Bret is beginning to fret I can’t decide whether Bret Stephens is nuts or just a really bad satirist. I’m referring to his Wall Street Journal column entitled Obama’s Charm Isn’t Working Wonders Abroad, in which he recites a litany of foreign policy problems and wonders why Obama hasn’t solved them all yet. After all, it’s been twenty-one whole days! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,38,20,26,154,6,7,3,9],"tags":[485,487,486,2771,489,204,200,329,222,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nCuz our enemies still are a threat.
\nAnd Barack (he critiques)
\nHas been prez three whole weeks.
\nIf this isn’t a spoof, get a net!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"