{"id":2749,"date":"2008-06-23T06:55:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:32:40","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T12:32:40","slug":"lets-count-those-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2749","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Count Those Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s see – Obama’s gotten Castro<\/a>, Qaddafi<\/a>, Hamas…<\/p>\n

…and now, Kim Jong-Il<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea\u2019s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama<\/a> over McCain, whom it calls \u201ca variant of Bush\u201d and \u201cnothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,\u201d which is a bit odd considering that the Bush Administration\u2019s giveaway diplomacy<\/a> is better for Kim Jong Il than even Clinton\u2019s awful performance<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The blogger – from the “One Free Korea” blog, heretofore unknown to me – throws in a key caveat (I’ve added emphasis):<\/p>\n

The Republicans\u2019 efforts to capitalize on the Hamas endorsement made me slightly squeamish, because there are separate issues here that shouldn\u2019t be mixed. It isn\u2019t fair for anyone to imply, based on an unwanted endorsement, that a candidate in any way supports the endorsing entity\u2019s ideology or actions. It is<\/em> fair to ask whether the endorsement suggests that the endorsing entity knows something about the candidate. Why would Hamas or Kim Jong Il both believe that if Obama is elected, his policies would mean boom times for evildoers<\/strong>? Are they wrong?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t want to presume that Obama solicits or appreciates the endorsement of these dictators – no more than I appreciate the usual howler-monkeys on the left drawing significance from some right-fringe wackjob endorsing a GOP candidate.<\/p>\n

But what do these dictators know that Obama’s supporters – especially the ones who aren’t <\/em>sporting “Che” paraphernalia<\/a> – don’t?
\n(Via CW<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s see – Obama’s gotten Castro, Qaddafi, Hamas… …and now, Kim Jong-Il? The Chosun Sinbo, the mouthpiece of North Korea\u2019s Japanese front organization Chongryon and often for the North Korean regime itself, has announced its preference for Obama over McCain, whom it calls \u201ca variant of Bush\u201d and \u201cnothing better than a scarecrow of neoconservatives,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}