{"id":1395,"date":"2015-02-21T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/02\/do-not-criticize-obama.html"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:19:00","slug":"do-not-criticize-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/02\/do-not-criticize-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Do not criticize Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>Don\u2019t do it. Just don\u2019t. \u00a0CNN just opened a segment saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/02\/21\/giuliani-obama-influenced-by-communists-since-youth\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Giuliani\u2019s recent statements<\/a>\u00a0about Obama might not just ruin his legacy, it could hurt the entire GOP. Wow. I love liberalism\u2019s ability to fire verbal nuclear missiles at opponents, and then act as if the latest Holocaust took place over a pea shooter statement in return. \u00a0Reagan, Bush, Bush, Jr., have been accused of heinous, horrible things. They were accused of hating poor, children, minorities, gays, other countries. \u00a0They were called war mongers, racists, bigots. \u00a0They were accused of being idiots, of hating the world. \u00a0And the most that did was spark a discussion on Sunday morning talk shows. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But let someone say Obama might not love America the way others have, given that many of Obama\u2019s own mentors have little love for America, and all hell breaks loose. \u00a0And naturally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2015\/02\/21\/smerconish-axelrod-responds-02212015.cnn\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Axelrod jumps in<\/a>\u00a0and makes it about racism and racial divisions in order to advance the liberal agenda. \u00a0Did anybody not think that racism would be used to bludgeon anyone who didn\u2019t obey Obama? \u00a0What would liberals do without the boon of racial tensions? \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Anyone getting nauseous at the hypocrisy and wickedness of the modern Left yet? \u00a0 Just wait.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t do it. 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