{"id":4818,"date":"2012-05-12T19:16:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T01:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2012-05-12T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T01:17:14","slug":"good-lord-not-another-cheer-leader-duhbya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/good-lord-not-another-cheer-leader-duhbya-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Good lord, not another cheerleader?! DUHbya 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sense has been that Mr &amp; Mrs Romney are utterly tone-deaf to regular life. They sound like aliens. [hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangerousmeta.com\/\">dangerousmeta<\/a>}<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/05\/the-week-in-greed-6-to-behave-like-the-fallen-world\/\">THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World &#8211; The Rumpus.net<\/a> by Steve Almond<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like George W. Bush, [Romney] was an essentially frightened, unloved young man who came of age under tremendous pressure to live up to a famous father, who failed to distinguish himself as a scholar or an athlete and was relegated to the sidelines, whose desperate jocularity was shot through with a kind of unexamined sadism. Both men have forged a path to success via an alarming absence of self-reflection. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>[T]here is something in his character that I am starting to get frightened about, an unwillingness, or an inability, to feel remorse, to simply own up to a moral failing, to apologize not just if \u201csomebody was hurt\u201d but because you know, deep down, that you hurt someone. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the modern political system selects for this kind of moral amnesia.<\/p>\n<p>But it matters. George W. Bush was a destructive president because he was a deluded man. He made bad policy because he lacked the empathy and humility to think about the human cost of those policies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/05\/the-week-in-greed-6-to-behave-like-the-fallen-world\/\">THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World &#8211; The Rumpus.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sense has been that Mr &amp; Mrs Romney are utterly tone-deaf to regular life. They sound like aliens. [hat tip to dangerousmeta} THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World &#8211; The Rumpus.net by Steve Almond Like George W. Bush, [Romney] was an essentially frightened, unloved young man who came of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/good-lord-not-another-cheer-leader-duhbya-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good lord, not another cheerleader?! DUHbya 2.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4821,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions\/4821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}