{"id":3567,"date":"2008-10-31T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2008-10-31T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:59:29","slug":"i-ignore-most-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3567","title":{"rendered":"I Ignore Most Endorsements&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">some are more interesting than others<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,&#8221; Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\" \/>Libi, a top al Qaeda commander believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, called for God&#8217;s wrath to be brought against Bush equating him with past tyrants in history.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_2\" \/>The remarks were the first from a leading al Qaeda figure referring, albeit indirectly, to the U.S. elections. Muslim clerics often end sermons by calling on God to guide and support Muslims and help defeat their enemies.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_3\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But&#8230;why?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"midArticle_11\" \/>&#8230;militant postings on al Qaeda-linked websites typically discuss Obama in terms of his race, or his religion and foreign policy. Some forecast a racial crisis dividing the United States if he wins. Others say his planned phased withdrawal from Iraq would be a boon to al Qaeda&#8217;s affiliate and give it a base for Middle East expansion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What?\u00a0 No&#8230;but&#8230;no, not really.\u00a0 Would it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but then, some are more interesting than others: &#8220;O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,&#8221; Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet. Libi, a top al Qaeda commander believed to [&hellip;]<\/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-3567","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\/3567","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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}