{"id":434,"date":"2009-01-20T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T01:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-02-04T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:03:52","slug":"enjoy-the-honeymoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the honeymoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not last as long as you hope.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Obama is successful in his presidency.  I find most Conservatives feel similar to me.  We hope he does well but we also understand the left&#8217;s euphoria is likely to end at sometime not too distant.  Obama is not Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and MLK all in one person like the left seems to think.  I saw so many people grinning today as if all their troubles are behind them now that Obamessiah is in the house.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what.  He&#8217;s not going to be able to do any more than any other President.  The troubles he faces are not going to go away just because Obamessiah is in office.  He&#8217;s also going to have to realize he can&#8217;t just &#8220;Change&#8221; everything put in place in one fell swoop like Moveon.org would like.  He will have to do things slowly or he&#8217;ll find himself in big trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I wish him well and won&#8217;t do what the left did to Bush unless he ends up deserving it.  I don&#8217;t expect that, but I also don&#8217;t expect the miracles like the left does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not last as long as you hope. I hope Obama is successful in his presidency. I find most Conservatives feel similar to me. We hope he does well but we also understand the left&#8217;s euphoria is likely to end at sometime not too distant. Obama is not Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and MLK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}