{"id":37911,"date":"2013-08-20T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37911"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:01:51","slug":"the-bigger-horse-versus-the-shetland-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37911","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger Horse Versus The Shetland Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson documents how <a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/obama-bets-against-human-nature\/?singlepage=true\">h Obama&#8217;s crippling naivet\u00e9 on human nature <\/a>is devolving into dark comedy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The almost eerie hatred for Obama seen in Egypt \u2014 among the military, the Islamists, the Egyptian Street, and even the secular pro-Western reformists \u2014 in part derives from a sense that Obama tried to cajole them all with cheap commonalities <em>[the Muslim elements in his family history, his cosmopolitan childhood, his ethnically-mixed ancestry]<\/em>\u00a0and mytho-histories rather than negotiate often conflicting national interests through tough transparent talks.<\/p>\n<p>A good way to get beaten up in the hallway at a tough school is to assure the local king-of-the-hill thug that both of you really have a lot in common. In some sense, Obama\u2019s entire Middle East policy mirrors the hilarious scene in Clint Eastwood\u2019s Gran Torino, where the white punk attired in pseudo-gang attire believes he can out-jive gangbangers into leaving his girl alone. He can\u2019t. Obama has unfortunately become such a wannabe in the eyes of unapologetic Middle East gangsters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson documents how h Obama&#8217;s crippling naivet\u00e9 on human nature is devolving into dark comedy: The almost eerie hatred for Obama seen in Egypt \u2014 among the military, the Islamists, the Egyptian Street, and even the secular pro-Western reformists \u2014 in part derives from a sense that Obama tried to cajole them all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37911","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=37911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37912,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37911\/revisions\/37912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}