{"id":7097,"date":"2015-06-12T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/obama-and-pigeon-chess\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T12:41:47","slug":"obama-and-pigeon-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/obama-and-pigeon-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Pigeon Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've said it before: beware of unsourced 'quotations.' An \u00fcber<\/em>-conservative correspondent forwarded me the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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"Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon." "The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game."
~Vladimir Putin<\/em><\/strong>   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now Obama is indeed a feckless fool, and a disaster for the country and the world.  It is a blot upon the American electorate that this mendacious incompetent was elected and then, horribile dictu<\/em>, re-elected.  I hope we can all agree on that.  Mockery and derision are appropriate weapons to deploy against him and his supporters.  But we who stand up for truth ought to  be especially scrupulous about getting things right.  So I ran the 'quotation' past Snopes.com<\/a> whereat it is plausibly maintained that Putin said no such thing. <\/span> There I snagged this nifty graphic:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Pigeon<\/a>
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I've said it before: beware of unsourced 'quotations.' An \u00fcber-conservative correspondent forwarded me the following: "Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon." "The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game."~Vladimir Putin    Now Obama is indeed a feckless fool, and a … Continue reading “Obama and Pigeon Chess”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}