{"id":1295,"date":"2008-12-06T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T03:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2014-02-17T08:17:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T16:17:49","slug":"bds-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/bds-phase-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BDS, Phase 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last five years or so, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bush_Derangement_Syndrome\">BDS<\/a> has stood for <b>B<\/b>ush <b>D<\/b>erangement <b>S<\/b>yndrome.<\/p>\n<div class=\"facebook\">Former psychiatrist Charles Krauthammer, noting the reaction of liberals to George W. Bush and his policies, in a 2003 column coined the term <strong>Bush Derangement Syndrome<\/strong> to describe &#8220;the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency\u2014nay\u2014the very existence of George W. Bush&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>During Phase Two, BDS officially stands for <b>B<\/b>arack <b>D<\/b>erangement <b>S<\/b>yndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Says who?<\/p>\n<p>Why, me, of course.  <img src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, with that aside, what do you think will be the official Supreme Court decision here?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2008\/dec\/06\/obama-challenge-awaits-a-decision\/\">Decision on Obama citizenship pending<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court held off Friday on deciding whether to grant a hearing in a long-shot lawsuit that would decide whether Barack Obama can constitutionally become president as a &#8220;natural born&#8221; U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday list of court orders that denies or grants hearings did not mention the lawsuit, which says Mr. Obama should be disqualified from the presidency because he purportedly acquired the same British citizenship that his father had when he was born.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the court said the decision on whether to hear the suit brought by retired New Jersey lawyer Leo Donofrio is likely to be announced next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bush Derangement Syndrome to Barack Derangement Syndrome&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[628,436],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitution","tag-courts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-kT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}