The Nincompoop in Chief has been wrong on so much so often — the war in Iraq and The Nincompoop in Chief has been wrong on so much so often — the war in Iraq and the disastrous post-war situation, finding weapons of mass destruction, finding Osama bin Laden, democratizing Afghanistan, retaining European allies, U.S. foreign policy in general, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons via Pakistan, containing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe disastrous post-war situation<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>,
\nfinding weapons of mass destruction, finding Osama bin Laden, democratizing Afghanistan,
\nretaining European allies, U.S. foreign policy in general, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
\nvia Pakistan, containing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and now Iran’s, the U.S. economy, lost
\njobs, tax cuts for the rich, privatizing Social Security, the rising cost of Medicare, the high price of
\ndrugs, stem-cell research, separation of church and state, abortion, global warming,
\nenvironmental conservation, corporate corruption — that if you attack him on everything he’s been
\nwrong about, you appear unfocused and you sound diffuse. But if you narrow your attack to only
\none or two of his mistakes, you give him a pass on all the others. So how do you demonstrate that
\nthe ninny has been a disaster on all counts, without giving him a pass on anything, and yet seem
\nclear, on point and forceful? Is it not weird — to
\nbelieve the polls<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> –that the ninny’s failures are working in his favor?
\nAny sentient human being would expect the opposite. Is the American electorate
\nsentient<\/B>?<\/FONT><\/A> Will it surprise us? Are the pollsters wrong?<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Beats
\nthe shit out of me.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"