{"id":7801,"date":"2011-10-26T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T20:01:46","slug":"quote-of-the-day-373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-373\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3953\" title=\"obama_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>&#8220;This is what it has come to for the man who created a Nevada wave in  2008, winning the state by 12 percentage points, pulling Democrats up  and down the ticket to victory &#8230; [President <strong>Barack<\/strong>] <strong>Obama<\/strong> previously had been greeted by Democrats high and low at the  airport, many of them only too eager to shake hands with the president  and perhaps ride in the motorcade. Now, the most powerful man in the  world is treated like he is arriving on a quarantined plane, a political  leper shunned by those who once embraced him \u2014 nay, by those he gave  political life to just a few years ago.&#8221; &#8212;<strong> <em>Jon Ralston<\/em><\/strong><em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/26\/what-happened-obama-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s presidential visit<\/a>, which saw only <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> Mayor <strong>Carolyn Goodman<\/strong> make the pilgrimage to <\/em><strong><em>McCarran International Airport<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is what it has come to for the man who created a Nevada wave in 2008, winning the state by 12 percentage points, pulling Democrats up and down the ticket to victory &#8230; [President Barack] Obama previously had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-373\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14,26,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7802,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions\/7802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}