{"id":197630,"date":"2008-01-21T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/another-day-another-obama-embrace-of-a-right-wing-meme\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T03:14:00","slug":"another-day-another-obama-embrace-of-a-right-wing-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/another-day-another-obama-embrace-of-a-right-wing-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day, Another Obama Embrace of a Right Wing Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2008\/01\/21\/595152.aspx\">Obama is declaring himself to be a &#8220;committed Christian&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I understand that he is trying to answer a disgraceful internet rumor about his being a crypto-Muslim.  I&#8217;m not exactly sure what the best response is, but this is is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">worst<\/span> response.<\/p>\n<p>He is essentially responding to a demand of an oath of Christianity to qualify for public office.  You shouldn&#8217;t capitulate to that, you should fight that.<\/p>\n<p>You need to show the people who make this request are un-American, and they need to be removed from mainstream political discussion through ridicule and justified outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Pandering is not the solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/7251\/20080121obamafaith1mv1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/7251\/20080121obamafaith1mv1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/1658\/20080121obamafaith2gq9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img89.imageshack.us\/img89\/1658\/20080121obamafaith2gq9.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, now Obama is declaring himself to be a &#8220;committed Christian&#8221;. I understand that he is trying to answer a disgraceful internet rumor about his being a crypto-Muslim. I&#8217;m not exactly sure what the best response is, but this is is the worst response. He is essentially responding to a demand of an oath of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,978,977,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197630"}],"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=197630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}