{"id":6983,"date":"2014-07-04T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T17:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2014-07-04T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T17:06:12","slug":"american-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/american-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"American Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are evenly divided between those who think DUHbya, the guy who pissed away a fortune in war and tanked the economy &#8212; not that it hurt the profits of his friends one bit &#8212; or Obama is best\/worst for the economy. Get real, people. Something is horribly wrong with the ability of a frightening large number of Americans to think clearly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2014\/07\/02\/obama-george-w-bush-quinnipiac-poll-reagan-clinton\/11985837\/\">Poll: Obama &#8216;worst president&#8217; since World War II<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a new Quinnipiac University Poll, 33% named Barack Obama the worst president since World War II. Only 8% named Obama as the best president. How the 12 post-war presidents fared:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/theoval\/2014\/07\/02\/obama-george-w-bush-quinnipiac-poll-reagan-clinton\/11985837\/\">Poll: Obama &#8216;worst president&#8217; since World War II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/425016\/news\/market-sets-record-closing-above-17k.html\">First time ever | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClearly, if you had the guts to invest during the depths of the crisis, your returns would have looked just spectacular,\u201d he said, noting annualized returns of 21 percent and a total return of 175 percent from March 2009 to the market\u2019s peak.  <\/p>\n<p>Browne said it was stressful, of course, including watching the Dow drop 50 percent from its highs, but again the takeaway is pick an \u201cappropriate asset allocation and stick to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/425016\/news\/market-sets-record-closing-above-17k.html\">First time ever | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My ranking:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>DUHBya is the worst, may no one ever approach his crapulence.<\/li>\n<li>Nixon was a dirty rat and dreadful. (I never thought I\u2019d hate a president more, but I was so wrong.)<\/li>\n<li>Raygun was the turning point in the destruction of America by blind conservatism.<\/li>\n<li>Ford was pointless.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans are evenly divided between those who think DUHbya, the guy who pissed away a fortune in war and tanked the economy &#8212; not that it hurt the profits of his friends one bit &#8212; or Obama is best\/worst for the economy. Get real, people. Something is horribly wrong with the ability of a frightening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/american-idiots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Idiots<\/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":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}