{"id":436,"date":"2009-01-17T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2009-01-17T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T14:08:35","slug":"to-uninspire-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/17\/to-uninspire-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"To Uninspire a Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/\">Constitution Center<\/a> in Philly is asking people to come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/addressamerica\/\">six words<\/a> that Pres. Obama should add to his inaugural address. Mr. Obama will face a crowd of millions, with tens &#8212; if not hundreds &#8212; of millions more watching on TV, and apparently the Center thought he could use some help&#8230;and they could use some publicity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Putting words in his mouth is a tricky proposition, and I think it might be helpful to feel out the borders of good taste for the Constitution Center people. You know, a touchstone they could test against for appropriateness.<\/p>\n<p>So, some six word phrases that <em>shouldn&#8217;t<\/em> be in the inaugural address:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I will devour your filthy souls<\/li>\n<li> Damn, its brisk out here, people!<\/li>\n<li> Hopeity, bopeity, shmopeity, blah blah blah<\/li>\n<li> Wait, women can vote for president?<\/li>\n<li> You get a car&#8230;and <em>you<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li> I <em>will<\/em> grow a Lincoln beard<\/li>\n<li> Can I get a wave going?<\/li>\n<li> Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani, just kidding<\/li>\n<li> My new ranch in Crawford, Texas<\/li>\n<li> You get a bailout&#8230;and <em>you<\/em>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li> But first, hold hands and sing<\/li>\n<li> Ph&#8217;nglui mglw&#8217;nafh Obama R&#8217;lyeh wgah&#8217;nagl fhtagn<\/li>\n<li> Everyone, hold hands and concentrate&#8230;LIFT!!!<\/li>\n<li> Pass the plate, please, the deficit&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I really am a Secret Muslim<\/li>\n<li>It really isn&#8217;t a great job<\/li>\n<li>Build, build, build my golden idol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please suggest some more. And I will immediately ask Obama not to include them in his speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitution Center in Philly is asking people to come up with six words that Pres. Obama should add to his inaugural address. Mr. Obama will face a crowd of millions, with tens &#8212; if not hundreds &#8212; of millions more watching on TV, and apparently the Center thought he could use some help&#8230;and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[28,34,37,35,36,33],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","category-skeptic","tag-cthulhu","tag-inaugural","tag-inauguration","tag-obama","tag-president","tag-six-words","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-72","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}