It was a good speech.<\/p>\n
No, it was a great speech.<\/p>\n
That’s no surprise, as giving great speeches is Obama’s stock in trade. And, thankfully, I didn’t watch or hear any Gore crap from earlier today. Obama was all I got.<\/p>\n
Initial thoughts: it was surprisingly conservative-sounding in places. If you were born yesterday, it would be hard to ignore the power and the hope and the inspiration of Obama’s vision for the future.<\/p>\n
But I was born forty years ago. And I remember everything.<\/p>\n
Unlike Obama, I know that a government big enough to give me everything he promised tonight will also be big enough to take everything I have. “Free” health care. “Free” tuition. “Free” job security. “Free” retirement benefits. These aren’t new, fresh ideas, Barack – they’ve been tried before.<\/p>\n
They don’t work.<\/p>\n
So keep your freebies, Mr. Obama.<\/p>\n
I prefer freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Itwas a good speech. No, it was a great speech. That's no surprise, as giving great speeches is Obama's stock in trade. And, thankfully, I didn't watch or hear any Gore crap from earlier today. Obama was all I got. Initial thoughts: it was surprisingly conservative-sounding in places. If you were born yesterday, it would ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}