{"id":182217,"date":"2015-11-18T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/18\/thats-gonna-leave-a-mark\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:50:00","slug":"thats-gonna-leave-a-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/11\/18\/thats-gonna-leave-a-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Gonna Leave a Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama just called the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/260542-obama-gop-refugee-opponents-scared-of-widows-and-orphans\">Republican cowardice explosion over Syrian refugees a sign that they were afraid widows and orphans<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Obama is lashing out at Republican politicians who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S., accusing them of being &#8220;scared of widows and orphans.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning in the Philippines, Obama scoffed at attempts to block refugees following the Paris terror attacks as &#8220;political posturing&#8221; that &#8220;needs to stop.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,&#8221; Obama said of Republicans. &#8220;At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn\u2019t seem so tough to me.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Obama apparently directed his ire at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who said Tuesday he opposes allowing people fleeing the conflict in Syria to resettle in the U.S., even &#8220;orphans under five.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We are not well served when, in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t make good decisions if its based on hysteria or an exaggeration of risks.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is going on with the refugees right now is cowardice, naked pants-soiling cowardice, and it&#8217;s nice to see Obama calling it out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama just called the Republican cowardice explosion over Syrian refugees a sign that they were afraid widows and orphans: President Obama is lashing out at Republican politicians who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S., accusing them of being &#8220;scared of widows and orphans.&#8221;Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning in the Philippines, Obama scoffed at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,981,1053,978,980,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-civil-war","category-immigration","category-politics","category-syria","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}