{"id":925,"date":"2003-02-27T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2003-02-27T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/27\/925.html"},"modified":"2003-02-27T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2003-02-27T14:56:25","slug":"our-only-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/02\/27\/our-only-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Only President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watched a bit of Our Only President on TV last night; read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/02\/20030226-11.html\">transcript<\/a> of his speech this morning. Awful, just awful.\n<p>\nI don't know if reading it will give you an idea of just how bad it was. Most of it was delivered in a monotone; visually, it was a fight between the smirk and the stern game face. I can't imagine how anyone could trust him.\n<p>I don't believe that he believes what he's saying, or that he thinks that he should only say what he believes. I don't believe that he checks to see whether what he is saying is true or not. I don't trust that he has people around him who will challenge him or put his (much less the nation's) needs over their own. I don't trust that he questions the motives of the people around him, once he's decided to trust them.\n<p>I don't trust him to think long-term; I don't trust him to question his own assumptions; I don't trust him to understand that his perception of the universe is incomplete. I don't trust that his perception of the universe remotely looks like mine (not that mine is complete; it ain't, but it has its own partial validity).\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched a bit of Our Only President on TV last night; read the transcript of his speech this morning. Awful, just awful. I don&#8217;t know if reading it will give you an idea of just how bad it was. Most&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}