{"id":6963,"date":"2016-10-28T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2016-10-28T07:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T11:54:11","slug":"foolishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2016\/10\/foolishness.html","title":{"rendered":"Foolishness"},"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><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearworld.com\/articles\/2016\/10\/23\/russia_and_us_on_collision_course_beyond_syria.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Can look different in hindsight<\/a>. \u00a0Remember in 2012 when President Obama mocked Mitt Romney during a debate for suggesting we should be concerned about\u00a0Russia as a geopolitical threat? \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0We can\u00a0put that right up there with other recent observations from our leaders, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/US\/05\/01\/bush.transcript\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mission Accomplished<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2014\/sep\/07\/barack-obama\/what-obama-said-about-islamic-state-jv-team\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Junior Varsity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can look different in hindsight. \u00a0Remember in 2012 when President Obama mocked Mitt Romney during a debate for suggesting we should be concerned about\u00a0Russia as a geopolitical threat? \u00a0Yeah. \u00a0We can\u00a0put that right up there with other recent observations from our leaders, such as Mission Accomplished and 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