{"id":61693,"date":"2017-01-10T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61693"},"modified":"2017-01-09T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T00:38:23","slug":"parting-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61693","title":{"rendered":"Parting Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Obama promises to send 1,200 Special Forces troops to Lithuania<\/span><\/a>, to counter Russian military aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a transparently political move directed at low-information domestic audience, the people who get their news from headlines alone.\u00a0 Obama won\u2019t be President this Spring so he won\u2019t be the one keeping the promise when it comes to sending Greet Berets against Russian tanks.\u00a0 But if Trump doesn\u2019t keep Obama\u2019s promise, then Democrats will claim Trump is abandoning our allies because he\u2019s in bed with the Russians who stole our election.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump should declare today that he has no intention of letting Obama start a war with Russia and then walk away leaving him holding the bag, that Trump will make his own decisions after he is inaugurated.<\/span><\/p>\n

I expect Obama will continue to sabotage the incoming administration, not in Bill Clinton\u2019s juvenile method of removing the \u201cW\u201d from all the White House keyboards, but in true tin-pot dictator style, by emptying the prisons and pardoning his henchmen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

I expect Sasha, Malia and Michelle to get a “fact-finding trip” to Monaco out of the deal in the next two weeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama promises to send 1,200 Special Forces troops to Lithuania, to counter Russian military aggression. This is a transparently political move directed at low-information domestic audience, the people who get their news from headlines alone.\u00a0 Obama won\u2019t be President this Spring so he won\u2019t be the one keeping the […]<\/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-61693","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\/61693","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=61693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61694,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions\/61694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}