{"id":3740,"date":"2007-11-03T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/obama-on-cheney-the-crazy-uncl.html"},"modified":"2007-11-03T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T13:19:00","slug":"obama-on-cheney-the-crazy-uncl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/obama-on-cheney-the-crazy-uncl.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Cheney: &#8220;The crazy uncle in the attic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Obama was going to be a different kind of politician.  <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2007\/11\/03\/obama-cheney-the-crazy-uncle-in-the-attic\/\">Seems like more of the same BDS<\/a> that&#8217;s we&#8217;ve seen for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot,&#8221; he told the crowd of about 500 at Converse College in Spartanburg. &#8220;The name Dick Cheney, my cousin, will not appear on the ballot. We tried to hide the cousin thing. Everybody has a black sheep in the family. The crazy uncle in the attic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t sound too presidential, does it? Not gracious at all and quite rude (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?q=1+corinthians+13%3A4-5\">which is not very Christian<\/a>), especially since they are related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Obama was going to be a different kind of politician. Seems like more of the same BDS that&#8217;s we&#8217;ve seen for years. &#8220;For the first time in a long time, the name George Bush will not appear on the ballot,&#8221; he told the crowd of about 500 at Converse College in Spartanburg. &#8220;The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92,48,15,13,14],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-bds","tag-cheney","tag-democrats","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama on Cheney: &quot;The crazy uncle in the attic&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/obama-on-cheney-the-crazy-uncl.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama on Cheney: &quot;The crazy uncle in the attic&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thought Obama was going to be a different kind of politician. 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