{"id":9,"date":"2007-09-24T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2007-09-30T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-30T23:50:11","slug":"senior-white-house-official-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Senior White House Official&#8221; on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/flash1.htm\" title=\"The Drudge Report\">Matt Drudge<\/a>  has this to say in one of his trademark &#8220;flashes&#8221; excerpting some breaking news from a new book to be published in which many &#8220;senior White House officials&#8221; were interviewed including Cheny and Bush:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for Obama, a senior White House official said the freshman senator from Illinois was \u201ccapable\u201d of the intellectual rigor needed to win the presidency but instead relies too heavily on his easy charm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s sort of like, &#8216;that&#8217;s all I need to get by,&#8217; which bespeaks sort of a condescending attitude towards the voters,\u201d said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. \u201cAnd a laziness, an intellectual laziness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, Bush says that Hillary will win the nomination.  But am I the only one to see the irony of a Bush official citing a candidate&#8217;s &#8220;intellectual laziness&#8221; as a reason the candidate cannot win office?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Drudge has this to say in one of his trademark &#8220;flashes&#8221; excerpting some breaking news from a new book to be published in which many &#8220;senior White House officials&#8221; were interviewed including Cheny and Bush: As for Obama, a senior White House official said the freshman senator from Illinois was \u201ccapable\u201d of the intellectual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}