{"id":47134,"date":"2014-09-08T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=47134"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:30:38","slug":"growing-pressure-on-obama-to-do-something-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/09\/growing-pressure-on-obama-to-do-something-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Pressure on Obama to Do Something Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Borowitz-Obama-Stupid-690.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Borowitz-Obama-Stupid-690.jpg\" alt=\"Borowitz-Obama-Stupid-690\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Borowitz-Obama-Stupid-690.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Borowitz-Obama-Stupid-690-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arguing that his motto \u201cDon\u2019t do stupid stuff\u201d is not a coherent foreign policy, critics of President Obama are pressuring him to do something stupid without further delay.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) led the attack on Thursday [4 Sep 2014], blasting Obama for failing to craft a stupid response to crises in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of reacting to these events with the haste and recklessness they deserve, the President has chosen to waste valuable time thinking,\u201d McCain\u00a0said. \u201cThis goes against the most fundamental principles of American foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham also expressed frustration with the President, telling reporters, \u201cThe American people are waiting for President Obama to do something stupid, but their patience is wearing thin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his most withering criticism, McCain called Obama\u2019s \u201cstubborn refusal to do stupid stuff\u201d a failure of leadership. \u201cIf I were President, you can bet your bottom dollar I would have done plenty of stupid stuff by now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Andy Borowitz is a New York Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever National Press Club award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by The New Yorker in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/growing-pressure-obama-something-stupid\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInstead of reacting to these events with the haste and recklessness they deserve, the President has chosen to waste valuable time thinking Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) said. \u201cThis goes against the most fundamental principles of American foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}