{"id":49028,"date":"2014-11-11T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49028"},"modified":"2014-11-10T18:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T00:04:36","slug":"darned-if-you-do-darned-if-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49028","title":{"rendered":"Darned If You Do, Darned If You Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-29979042\">sending more troops to Iraq.<\/a>  Ordinarily, I\u2019d use a colorful expression to explain why that\u2019s a dumb idea.  Not this time. <\/p>\n<p>If I said \u201cnot our circus, not our monkeys,\u201d then Liberals would gibber that I\u2019m comparing Africans to Apes, proving I\u2019m racissss.<\/p>\n<p>And if I said \u201cwe don\u2019t have a dog in that fight,\u201d Liberals would howl that dogs are offensive to Muslims, proving I\u2019m an intolerant religious bigot.<\/p>\n<p>If I said \u201cThere is no Constitutional authority to deploy US troops to a foreign land without a Congressional declaration of war,\u201d Liberals would solemnly opine that disputing The First Black Constitutional Scholar proves my utter ignorance of law and history. <\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019ll just say \u201cit\u2019s a dumb idea\u201d and let it go at that.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> If progressivism built the economy like it builds rhetorical gotchas, this country would be humming along right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama is sending more troops to Iraq. Ordinarily, I\u2019d use a colorful expression to explain why that\u2019s a dumb idea. Not this time. If I said \u201cnot our circus, not our monkeys,\u201d then Liberals would gibber that I\u2019m comparing Africans to Apes, proving I\u2019m racissss. And if I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49028","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=49028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49029,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49028\/revisions\/49029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}