{"id":13105,"date":"2011-04-12T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:35:26","slug":"this-week%e2%80%99s-cartoon-%e2%80%9cobama-cuts-deal-to-live-in-tent%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13105","title":{"rendered":"This Week\u2019s Cartoon: \u201cObama Cuts Deal to Live in Tent\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/obamatent.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Obama Cuts Deal to Live in Tent\" src=\"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/strips\/obamatent.png\" alt=\"comic about Obama and compromise\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve probably gone a little easier on Obama than some of my peers &#8212; not so much because I think he&#8217;s doing a great job, but because I have a certain amount of empathy (possibly too much) for anyone trying to run a country this steeped in nutballery.\u00a0 The real problems with American politics are systemic. But even with my very low expectations, I&#8217;m kind of\u00a0 amazed by Obama&#8217;s caution-to-the-point-of-recklessness. The contrast between Obama the campaigner and Obama the cold-fish prez have grown so stark, he&#8217;s looking highly disingenuous &#8212; and in politics, that&#8217;s a big risk. You&#8217;d think someone so risk-averse might start to worry about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve probably gone a little easier on Obama than some of my peers &#8212; not so much because I think he&#8217;s doing a great job, but because I have a certain amount of empathy (possibly too much) for anyone trying to run a country this steeped in nutballery.\u00a0 The real problems with American politics are [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}