{"id":9994,"date":"2015-08-01T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=9994"},"modified":"2015-08-01T06:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:30:55","slug":"how-obama-pleasures-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/how-obama-pleasures-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Pleasures Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Admission:<\/p>\n<p>I like Obama about as much as Hillary loves transparency, but it does amuse me how he takes pleasure in riling up his enemies. Bill Clinton did the same. And, so did George (W.) Bush. They are masters (whether by accident or design, I know not) at polarization.<\/p>\n<p>And guess what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polarization can make you a ton of the green stuff, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That is, if you do it right.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you aren&#8217;t afraid to be a bit repulsive.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Producer Jonathan and I rap about this on tomorrow&#8217;s &#8220;Ben Settle Show&#8221; podcast in exquisite detail.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime?<\/p>\n<p>Download our prior episodes here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.BenSettleShow.com\/antipreneur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admission: I like Obama about as much as Hillary loves transparency, but it does amuse me how he takes pleasure in riling up his enemies. Bill Clinton did the same. And, so did George (W.) Bush. 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