{"id":4746,"date":"2009-02-17T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2017-11-02T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:20:22","slug":"lets-talking-about-parsing-statements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/lets-talking-about-parsing-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Talking About Parsing Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <i>Washington Times<\/i> article entitled &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/feb\/09\/ramped-up-obama-rhetoric-could-backfire\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Doom&#8217; talk scored as &#8216;not presidential&#8217;<\/a>&quot;, we have a former &quot;senior aide&quot; to George W. Bush showing that Republican professional political parasites can look like twits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brad Blakeman, a senior aide to Mr. Bush from 2001 to 2004, said the new president&#8217;s language is immature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not presidential. An American leader needs to be hopeful and optimistic &#8211; and truthful. Everything he says is parsed; everything he says is searched for deep meaning. <b>When he goes to &#8216;DefCon 5&#8217; on the economy and says that we&#8217;re on the brink of catastrophe,<\/b> it&#8217;s absolutely insane.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As anyone whose life was changed by the 1983 film <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086567\/\" target=\"_blank\">WarGames<\/a><\/i> can tell you, the DEFCON scale goes from 5, the lowest which is used during normal peacetime conditions, to 1, which means the mountain is closed, brother.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe professional political parasites should really stay away from the military talk since they don&#8217;t teach that so well at the Kennedy School of Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Washington Times article entitled &quot;&#8216;Doom&#8217; talk scored as &#8216;not presidential&#8217;&quot;, we have a former &quot;senior aide&quot; to George W. Bush showing that Republican professional political parasites can look like twits: Brad Blakeman, a senior aide to Mr. Bush from 2001 to 2004, said the new president&#8217;s language is immature. &#8220;It&#8217;s not presidential. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17153,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/17153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}