{"id":9765,"date":"2013-10-09T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2013-10-09T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:00:09","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-the-speech-president-obama-should-givebut-never-will-1-channeled-by-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-speech-president-obama-should-givebut-never-will-1-channeled-by-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr archives) The Speech President Obama Should Give\u2026(but never will) #1 &#8230;Channeled by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now,\u00a0I have to tell you\u2014things have not worked out as I\u2019d planned or hoped. This is not the administration I wanted. And\u00a0I have nobody to blame but myself.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to hang this on my friends in the Republican Party, nor those in my own. As Harry Truman said, \u201cThe buck stops here.\u201d I came here to lead, but I\u2019ve done nothing but wet my finger and hold it to the prevailing breeze to see which way it blows. That is not what you expected of me&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Obama&#8217;s imaginary speech, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/the-speech-president-obama-should-give-but-never-will-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9766\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after addressing the nation about the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-ovaloff-300x198.jpg\" width=\"411\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-ovaloff-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-ovaloff.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/the-speech-president-obama-should-give-but-never-will-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2011\/07\/28\/the-speech-president-obama-should-give-but-never-will-1\/<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: &#8220;Now,\u00a0I have to tell you\u2014things have not worked out as I\u2019d planned or hoped. This is not the administration I wanted. And\u00a0I have nobody to blame but myself.\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to hang this on my friends in the Republican Party, nor those in my own. As Harry Truman said, \u201cThe buck stops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10210,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}