{"id":9377,"date":"2012-09-08T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/08\/empty-chair-empty-suit-empty-speech\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T12:06:47","slug":"empty-chair-empty-suit-empty-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/08\/empty-chair-empty-suit-empty-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Chair, Empty Suit, Empty Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0177449a2c7b970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Empty-suit2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0177449a2c7b970d\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0177449a2c7b970d-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Empty-suit2\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And the speech <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2012\/09\/06\/krauthammer_on_obama_one_of_the_emptiest_speeches_i_have_ever_heard.html\" target=\"_self\">was indeed empty<\/a>.&#0160; But that is par for the course for Dems.&#0160; Bare of content, full of bromides, vacuity piled upon vacuity. Gaseous, nebulous, nugatory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But the mendacity of it all is that behind the flatulent phrases is a hard Left agenda that they will not avow but that comes out&#0160; when their guard is down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;You didn&#39;t build that!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">&quot;Government is the only thing we all belong to.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If that isn&#39;t a totalitarian formula completely at odds with traditional American values, what would be?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And there you have the modern Democrat Party: totalitarianism wrapped in bullshit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the speech was indeed empty.&#0160; But that is par for the course for Dems.&#0160; Bare of content, full of bromides, vacuity piled upon vacuity. Gaseous, nebulous, nugatory. But the mendacity of it all is that behind the flatulent phrases is a hard Left agenda that they will not avow but that comes out&#0160; when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/08\/empty-chair-empty-suit-empty-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Empty Chair, Empty Suit, Empty Speech&#8221;<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}