{"id":1895,"date":"2013-02-13T19:51:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T02:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:35:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:35:11","slug":"sotu-not-really-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/02\/13\/sotu-not-really-impressed\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTU, not really impressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a headline from a Florida Newspaper that said, &#8220;More of the same&#8221;, referring to the Presidents speech.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to agree.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/NewImage17.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rubios rebuttal was interesting because of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the points<\/span> he made, not that he needed a little water to finish his speech.<\/p>\n<p>The media was showing it&#8217;s bias in a big way this morning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Had Obama taken a drink mid speech, the Media would probably have said little if anything other than &#8220;Well The President has been in meetings all day&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the way they were losing their minds this morning, you&#8217;d have thought Rubio grabbed a bottle of Scotch or something.<\/p>\n<p>There was one CNN crawler that asked the question &#8220;Career Ender?&#8221; superimposed over a picture of Senator Rubio drinking some water.<\/p>\n<p>Come on people. If you were listening to what Rubio was saying you could hear that he was getting dry throat.<\/p>\n<p>How about we drop this insanity of our politicians being held to inhumanly high standards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Obama isn&#8217;t the second coming of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans aren&#8217;t the spawn of Satan.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it enough that our politicians aren&#8217;t cheating on their wives (most of the time)? Isn&#8217;t it enough that they&#8217;re not embarrassing us as a nation (most of the time).<\/p>\n<p>So Senator Rubio needed a little sip of water&#8230; Big Deal!<\/p>\n<p>The more important question is did what he said make sense?<\/p>\n<p>Is that why the Media seized on his drink?<\/p>\n<p>Did someone in the media say &#8220;<em>Hey, wait a minute&#8230; This guy just said the right things to galvanize the middle class into swinging Republican&#8230;<\/em>&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope not, I hope it&#8217;s something as simple as the Media being stupid and petty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a headline from a Florida Newspaper that said, &#8220;More of the same&#8221;, referring to the Presidents speech. I tend to agree. Rubios rebuttal was interesting because of the points he made, not that he needed a little water to finish his speech. The media was showing it&#8217;s bias in a big way this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2013\/02\/13\/sotu-not-really-impressed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SOTU, not really impressed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10223,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/10223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}