{"id":7896,"date":"2010-01-17T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2010-01-17T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:33:43","slug":"proverbs-2624-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7896","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 26:24-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/14\/AR2010011403872.html?hpid=opinionsbox1\">In Obama&#8217;s speeches, one favorite phrase: &#8216;Let  me be clear&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama&#8217;s declarations of clarity are far more than a little presidential  throat-clearing.<\/p>\n<p>In a presidency in which everything is murkier than Obama could have imagined,  the &#8220;let me be clear&#8221; preface has become a signal that what follows will be  anything but.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now let me be clear &#8212; let me be absolutely clear&#8230;&#8221;If your family earns less  than $250,000 a year, a quarter-million dollars a year, you will not see your  taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.&#8221; Since then,  several proposals have muddied that assertion, including the Obama-approved tax  on costly health insurance plans.<\/p>\n<p>Let me be absolutely clear about what health reform means for you,&#8221; he said in July. &#8220;. . . It will keep government out of health-care  decisions. It will give you the option to keep your insurance if you&#8217;re happy  with it.&#8221; In fact, the government&#8217;s role in health care would increase under the  legislation, and the changes would, in all likelihood, result in many people  ending up with different coverage through reasons not of their own choosing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, let <em>me<\/em> be absolutely clear:<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 26:24-26: <em>&#8220;A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit. Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Obama&#8217;s speeches, one favorite phrase: &#8216;Let me be clear&#8217; Obama&#8217;s declarations of clarity are far more than a little presidential throat-clearing. In a presidency in which everything is murkier than Obama could have imagined, the &#8220;let me be clear&#8221; preface has become a signal that what follows will be anything but. &#8220;Now let me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,26,66,64,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-health-care","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7896"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7896\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}