{"id":194867,"date":"2008-08-13T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/bad-idea-barack\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T22:26:00","slug":"bad-idea-barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/bad-idea-barack\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Idea, Barack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woah, this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/2008\/view.bg?articleid=1112616&amp;format=&amp;page=2&amp;listingType=2008pres#articleFull\">full metal pander<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Obama appeared to agree, saying, &#8216;I have consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and trans-Atlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was this sort of statement that encouraged Georgia to get its war on and level a city full of women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it makes him look weak, because it makes him look like he is triangulating and that McCain is taking the lead on foreign policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woah, this is a full metal pander: Obama appeared to agree, saying, &#8216;I have consistently called for deepening relations between Georgia and trans-Atlantic institutions, including a Membership Action Plan for NATO, and we must continue to press for that deeper relationship.&#8217; It was this sort of statement that encouraged Georgia to get its war on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,984,1040,977,1033,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-europe","category-former-soviet-union","category-presidential-campaign","category-russia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194867"}],"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=194867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}