{"id":330,"date":"2011-07-22T23:55:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-08-08T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:20:50","slug":"obama-to-boehner-how-can-you-just-turn-and-walk-away-when-all-i-can-do-is-watch-you-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/22\/obama-to-boehner-how-can-you-just-turn-and-walk-away-when-all-i-can-do-is-watch-you-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Boehner: How Can You Just Turn and Walk Away When All I Can Do is Watch You Leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington) House Speaker John Boehner walked out on debt talks with President Barack Obama on Friday, raising the stakes in the country&#8217;s ongoing effort to stave off national default.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_331\" style=\"width: 546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AObama_Crying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AObama_Crying.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Crying\" title=\"!AObama_Crying\" width=\"536\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AObama_Crying.jpg 536w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/AObama_Crying-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama Crying<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In a press conference immediately after, a visually shaken President Obama was unable to speak to reporters or take questions about the abrupt and surprising end to the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he placed a laptop on the podium and played a Phil Collins music video, &#8220;Against All Odds,&#8221; from the 1984 movie of the same name starring Rachel Ward and Jeff Bridges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Against_All_Odds_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Against_All_Odds_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Against_All_Odds_1\" width=\"360\" height=\"510\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Against_All_Odds_1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Against_All_Odds_1-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Sd0W1RyMnE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bursting into tears briefly, Obama sang along with the video, <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you just walk away from me when all I can do is watch you leave&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;cos we shared the laughter and the pain and even shared the tears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regaining his normal composure, Obama continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, I think the offer I made was extremely fair.  Republicans and Democrats alike have got to prevent the government going into default and that means compromise.  We have to&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But midway through the song, Obama once again broke down and began singing along to the video, this time more softly, and rocking back and forth slightly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh take a look at me now &#8212; there&#8217;s just an empty space And you coming back to me is against the odds. And that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got to face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_332\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/obamaHead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" src=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/obamaHead.jpg\" alt=\"Obama With Head in Hands\" title=\"obamaHead\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/obamaHead.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/obamaHead-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Obama With Head in Hands<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Obama had to be lead out of the press conference, but returned briefly to address the camera and yell out: &#8220;But you&#8217;ll be back, mister.  Only there won&#8217;t be any taking back.  You&#8217;ll be sorry!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington) House Speaker John Boehner walked out on debt talks with President Barack Obama on Friday, raising the stakes in the country&#8217;s ongoing effort to stave off national default. In a press conference immediately after, a visually shaken President Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/22\/obama-to-boehner-how-can-you-just-turn-and-walk-away-when-all-i-can-do-is-watch-you-leave\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,135],"tags":[159,129,43,75,160],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-funny-stuff","category-political-comedy","category-troutboysblog","tag-against-all-odds","tag-budget-crisis","tag-john-boehner","tag-obama","tag-phil-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fishandcheese.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}