{"id":5750,"date":"2009-10-29T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2009-10-29T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T16:42:46","slug":"question-for-obama-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"Question For Obama Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Administration&#8217;s big campaigning points (back when Obama was campaigning <em>before <\/em>the election, as opposed to whatever he&#8217;s been doing this past nine months) was that he&#8217;d re-establish America&#8217;s purported image abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Which, at this remove, brings up two questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>With whom, exactly, has our image improved since January, in any meaningful way (and by &#8220;meaningful&#8221; I am not referring to cheap talk and blandishments like the utterly meaningless Nobel Peace prize)?<\/li>\n<li>More importantly:\u00a0 Of the countries that hated, disliked, were utterly ambivalent to,\u00a0or competed with the United States in 2007, which did <em>not <\/em>exhibit precisely the same feelings toward us in 2000?\u00a0 For purposes of this discussion, leave out the Taliban goverment in\u00a0Afghanistan and the\u00a0Ba&#8217;ath government in Iraq.\u00a0 List &#8217;em, and give specifics, please.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be interested in seeing the responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Administration&#8217;s big campaigning points (back when Obama was campaigning before the election, as opposed to whatever he&#8217;s been doing this past nine months) was that he&#8217;d re-establish America&#8217;s purported image abroad. Which, at this remove, brings up two questions: With whom, exactly, has our image improved since January, in any meaningful way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5752,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}