{"id":1777,"date":"2010-02-03T01:36:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2010-02-03T01:36:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T07:36:18","slug":"he-is-a-crappy-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/03\/he-is-a-crappy-president\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;He Is A Crappy President&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my words, but the words of highly respected economist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduinlaffermoore.com\/Arthur-Laffer.asp\">Dr. Arthur Laffer<\/a> from an interview published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35341\">Human Events.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cObama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president,\u201d Laffer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Laffer had a lot more to say in that interview about the state of the country&#8217;s economy and how the Obama Administration&#8217;s economic policy is affecting it. Although Laffer didn&#8217;t have much nice to say about the current policy, his is not your run-of-the-mill partisan mudslinging. He&#8217;s also written some scathing reviews of Bush Administration spending decisions, especially the bailouts in 2008. He may not be a totally unbiased source of info, but he is consistent in calling bad economic policy as he sees it. And he has some solid credentials backing up what he says.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama told Diane Sawyer in an interview recently, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.&#8221; I would so love for him to be a really good president, but if he continues on his present course, I forsee him being more of a crappy one-term president. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35341\"><em>Human Events<\/em> Interview<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124458888993599879.html\">&#8220;Get Ready for Inflation and Higher Interest Rates&#8221; &mdash; June 11, 2009, WSJ<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124260067214828295.html\">Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich &mdash; May 18, 2009, WSJ<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204619004574324361508092006.html\">&#8220;How to Fix the Health-Care \u2018Wedge\u2019; There is an alternative to ObamaCare&#8221; &mdash; August 5, 2009, WSJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my words, but the words of highly respected economist, Dr. Arthur Laffer from an interview published on Human Events. \u201cObama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president,\u201d Laffer said. Dr. Laffer had a lot more to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-bias","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}