{"id":209,"date":"2008-08-10T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=209"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:48:19","slug":"sage-advice-for-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Sage Advice for Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2008\/08\/10\/how-obama-should-respond-to-the-celebrity-charge\/\">extremely wise column<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is that no one would be paying any attention to me at all if I wasn\u2019t talking about things that really matter to a lot of people. You\u2019re not here tonight\u2013and you\u2019re not watching at home\u2013because you want to be entertained. Lord knows there are plenty of things that you could be doing with your time right now that would be far more entertaining than listening to me. 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