{"id":50991,"date":"2015-01-30T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50991"},"modified":"2015-01-29T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T05:32:14","slug":"above-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=50991","title":{"rendered":"Above All That"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

President Obama isn\u2019t Un-American, he\u2019s Post-American.<\/p>\n

Before the Constitution, people living here were subject to the whims of the British Crown.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re living here, we\u2019re supposed to be citizens of a democratic republic; but that\u2019s too confining for a person who has the vision and power to stop the seas from rising and start the Earth healing.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re headed into a Post-American era, where national geographical boundaries will no longer matter. Anybody who wants to move here should be able to, and should be able to work here, too. And President Obama\u2019s new pick for Attorney General agrees it\u2019s totally legal and constitutional<\/a> legal and Constitutional for the President to up and decide that, on his own. Worse, she won\u2019t rule out the possibility that President Obama\u2019s actions give illegal aliens greater rights to jobs than American citizens, like Veterans\u2019 Preference points, only for soldiers in the other side\u2019s army.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t mind so much except I keep wondering what else will change in a Post-American era. Will life here become like Europe after the Fall of Rome? That might not be as much fun as some people seem to think.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Progressive” have seen themselves as “post American” for a long time; it was one of the key factors of the 2004 election. It didn’t work for John Kerry; I think people basically ignored it with Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: President Obama isn\u2019t Un-American, he\u2019s Post-American. Before the Constitution, people living here were subject to the whims of the British Crown. While we\u2019re living here, we\u2019re supposed to be citizens of a democratic republic; but that\u2019s too confining for a person who has the vision and power to stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991","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=50991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50992,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50991\/revisions\/50992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}