{"id":160,"date":"2009-11-02T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/02\/we-wanted-a-do-nothing-president\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:22:35","slug":"we-wanted-a-do-nothing-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/02\/we-wanted-a-do-nothing-president\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;We Wanted a Do-Nothing President&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/220527\" target=\"_blank\">a letter from a Newsweek reader<\/a> on the week\u2019s previous Anna Quindlen column about Obama\u2019s change challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Anna Quindlen asserts that, to help move the president&#8217;s liberal agenda along, Americans &quot;should start acting more like the voters who elected him.&quot; I suspect it&#8217;s a mistake to equate the reasons many independents voted for President Obama\u2014his youth, his family, his freshness after eight years of GOP governance\u2014with strong support for his policies.      <br \/><em>Calvin l. White<\/em> Ooltewah, Tenn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. White seems to be saying, \u201cYeah, we elected him but we didn\u2019t really want him to <em>do<\/em>&#160;<em>anything<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a letter from a Newsweek reader on the week\u2019s previous Anna Quindlen column about Obama\u2019s change challenge. Anna Quindlen asserts that, to help move the president&#8217;s liberal agenda along, Americans &quot;should start acting more like the voters who elected him.&quot; I suspect it&#8217;s a mistake to equate the reasons many independents voted for President&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/11\/02\/we-wanted-a-do-nothing-president\/\">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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}