{"id":3554,"date":"2008-10-29T05:10:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3554"},"modified":"2008-10-29T05:10:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T10:10:47","slug":"foul-sea-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3554","title":{"rendered":"Foul Sea Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve tried to mentally block out the notion of an Obamessiah presidency.\u00a0 While I’ve vowed to respect the office if not the person (and, more accurately, the person’s policies; I have little indication that Obama’s not a good, if dull, human being who is the beneficiary of a dicey economy and a scandalously in-the-bag media<\/a>), I strongly suspect that Obama, whatever his merits as an individual, a father and a human being, will be the worst president of my adult lifetime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gary Miller?\u00a0 He’s even less sanguine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a universe where reason prevailed, the 11th hour bombshell that the presumptive president-elect openly expressed contempt for the American Founding and admiration for Marxist dogma<\/font><\/a> would be met with a 50-state rejection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It appears, however, that we do not live in such a universe…With 3-4 vacancies looming on SCOTUS, it is clear that President Obama will use the opportunity to nominate justices for whom \u201credistributing wealth\u201d is\u00a0part of\u00a0the job description.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the most glaring differences between Left and Right is that conservatives share a distrust of tinkering with the wheels and levers of government (and those who enjoy the tinkering too much); liberals revel in it, and see it as the highest expression of political art.<\/p>\n

And that – combined with an interventionist agenda (“share the wealth!”), the complete lack of vetting, and a personality cult-like following – is going to be a problem in all the ways Gary noted, if Obama wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve tried to mentally block out the notion of an Obamessiah presidency.\u00a0 While I’ve vowed to respect the office if not the person (and, more accurately, the person’s policies; I have little indication that Obama’s not a good, if dull, human being who is the beneficiary of a dicey economy and a scandalously in-the-bag media), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","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=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}