{"id":100,"date":"2010-06-23T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/23\/mcchrystal-gone-obama-saved\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T14:52:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T18:52:12","slug":"mcchrystal-gone-obama-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/23\/mcchrystal-gone-obama-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"McChrystal Gone, Obama Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no way Gen. McChrystal could save his job without the president sacrificing his.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100623\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_obama_mcchrystal\" target=\"_blank\">Now<\/a>, will Obama fire all the aides quoted in the story?&#160; It shouldn\u2019t be hard to find out who they are.<\/p>\n<p>The downside, of course, is that the general, once his inevitable retirement occurs, and his aides will talk, and not kindly of the administration.&#160; That will add fuel to the partisan fire that Obama is over his head in foreign affairs and as commander-in-chief.&#160; But he would have heard that if he kept the general, along with accusations that he was weak.<\/p>\n<p>Obama does not make decisions quickly, nor does he change strategies at the drop of a hat.&#160; But this may be seen as a pivotal point in his presidency where he begins to assert himself more forcefully.&#160; We may see it soon with the climate change bill.&#160; I doubt that as much as the GOP will try, McChrystal\u2019s firing will hurt the president.&#160; In fact, maybe some independents will see that he has some cojones.<\/p>\n<p>One can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no way Gen. McChrystal could save his job without the president sacrificing his.&#160; Now, will Obama fire all the aides quoted in the story?&#160; It shouldn\u2019t be hard to find out who they are. The downside, of course, is that the general, once his inevitable retirement occurs, and his aides will talk, and&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2010\/06\/23\/mcchrystal-gone-obama-saved\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}