{"id":3745,"date":"2008-12-04T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2008-12-03T23:42:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:42:01","slug":"president-elect-oprah-obama-cut-spending-on-unproven-missile-defense-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"President-Elect <strike>Oprah<\/strike> Obama: Cut Spending On Unproven Missile Defense Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrong again Mr. Jimmy. Best consult with your National Suckurity team before you follow through on that particularly obtuse ambition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force&#8217;s airborne laser program passes yet another test, proving &#8220;unproven&#8221; missile defense once again. The question is not whether we can get it to work, but whether we can afford not to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Americans should be very afraid of Obama because the bad guys are not. The greatest threat: a rogue nation with new found nuclear weapons capability and the ability to launch said lode ballistic. EMP over NYC. Our best new hope of defending against said threat: the technology that Major B.O. wants to cancel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=313200098670482\"><span id=\"ctl00_maincontent_FeedList_ctl00_TitleLabel\">Missile Defense Takes Off<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week, Boeing and the Missile Defense Agency announced another successful test \u2014 the first ground test of the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft, including the firing of a high-energy laser through the ABL beam control\/fire control system. Earlier tests had unit-tested other components of the system, particularly the ability to find, track and target missiles in flight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A campaign promise that actually <em>should<\/em> be broken. This is not the time for a wuss in the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrong again Mr. Jimmy. Best consult with your National Suckurity team before you follow through on that particularly obtuse ambition. The Air Force&#8217;s airborne laser program passes yet another test, proving &#8220;unproven&#8221; missile defense once again. The question is not whether we can get it to work, but whether we can afford not to. Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,64,49,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-president-obama","category-science","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}