{"id":66001,"date":"2018-02-20T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66001"},"modified":"2018-02-17T15:02:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:02:58","slug":"mediocrity-in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66001","title":{"rendered":"Mediocrity In Our Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the movie\u00a0<em>The Final Year\u00a0<\/em> &#8211; about the Obama Administration&#8217;s, well, final year &#8211; reveals more between the lines than in the actual script, according to Kyle Smith in NRO.<\/p>\n<p>Pullquote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama foreign-policy masters see their three accomplishments as the Paris Climate Accord, the opening to Cuba, and the Iran deal. Given that the former wasn\u2019t presented to Congress for approval, was nonbinding, and was later dumped by President Trump, while the other two amounted to making concessions to American foes in exchange for virtually nothing, this is a bit like bragging that you suckered the Franklin Mint into giving up a souvenir Elvis plate for only $34.95. But to understand why Rhodes and Obama are so pleased with their foreign policy, you have to understand the way they think. The documentary is revealing about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A contest to determine the worst Secretary of State of the past fifty years between Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry would be a spirited one indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A review of the movie\u00a0The Final Year\u00a0 &#8211; about the Obama Administration&#8217;s, well, final year &#8211; reveals more between the lines than in the actual script, according to Kyle Smith in NRO. Pullquote: The Obama foreign-policy masters see their three accomplishments as the Paris Climate Accord, the opening to Cuba, and the Iran deal. Given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66002,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66001\/revisions\/66002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}