{"id":86725,"date":"2011-12-22T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/12\/22\/matt-damon-slams-obama-imagine-if-we-had-a-leader\/"},"modified":"2011-12-22T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:11:50","slug":"matt-damon-slams-obama-imagine-if-we-had-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/matt-damon-slams-obama-imagine-if-we-had-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon slams Obama: \u2018Imagine\u2019 if we \u2018had a leader\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Matt Damon\u2019s always good for some candid political conversation. In the new Elle mag, Damon &#8212; who conducts the interview on the first day of an Occupy Wall Street offshoot in Vancouver &#8212; expresses his displeasure with President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grass-roots level. One of them said to me, \u2018Never again. I will never be fooled again by a politician,\u2019\u201d says Damon, who has been critical of the president in the past. \u201cYou know, a one-term president with some (nerve) who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon gestures in the direction of the picketers and adds, \u201cIf the Democrats think that they didn\u2019t have a mandate &#8212; people are literally without any focus or leadership, just wandering out into the streets to yell right now because they are so pissed off,\u201d he says. \u201cImagine if they had a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Damon\u2019s always good for some candid political conversation. In the new Elle mag, Damon &#8212; who conducts the interview on the first day of an Occupy Wall Street offshoot in Vancouver &#8212; expresses his displeasure with President Obama. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to a lot of people who worked for Obama at the grass-roots level. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}