{"id":5157,"date":"2010-12-07T21:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2010-12-07T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T21:17:40","slug":"obama-hysteria-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-still-the-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/obama-hysteria-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-still-the-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama hysteria: The enemy of my enemy is still the enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how will the right-wing conceit that Obama represents an eruption of radicalism so\u00a0alien and extreme as to lie outside of any American political tradition survive the left-wing attack on Obama for preserving the Bush tax cuts and other betrayals of the left&#8217;s agenda?\u00a0\u00a0 Easily.\u00a0 By ignoring the contradiction.\u00a0 Rush Limbaugh today gloatingly read from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/06\/AR2010120606022.html\">Katrina vanden Heuvel&#8217;s op-ed <\/a>in the Washington Post blasting Obama for his compromises with Republicans.\u00a0 Limbaugh noted that Obama appears committed to winning in Afghanistan and that he has yet to close Gitmo, then added: And of course the Right criticizes Obama for trying to destroy America with his left-wing agenda.\u00a0\u00a0 If Limbaugh discerned any tension between these two positions, he did not let on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how will the right-wing conceit that Obama represents an eruption of radicalism so\u00a0alien and extreme as to lie outside of any American political tradition survive the left-wing attack on Obama for preserving the Bush tax cuts and other betrayals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/obama-hysteria-the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-still-the-enemy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5159,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5157\/revisions\/5159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}