{"id":39296,"date":"2012-10-26T12:31:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39296"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:03:16","slug":"dont-change-horses-in-the-middle-of-the-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/10\/dont-change-horses-in-the-middle-of-the-stream.html","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In response to defenses of Obama\u2019s drone war on Pakistani four year old girls I am getting from both \u201cpragmatic\u201d Lefties (you may remember them as the \u201canti-war Left\u201d) and kill-crazy conservatives (you may remember them as the \u201cprolife Right\u201d) who agree with Romney\u2019s enthusiastic support for the President\u2019s policies here, I may be nearing a political conversion.\u00a0 How\u2019s this for an endorsement for Obama on the one policy of his\u2013secret, unilateral, lawless murder of civilians\u2013everybody on both sides of the aisle seems to agree on:<\/p>\n

We need to be open to new and fresh ways to murder civilians.\u00a0 This is the Third Millennium after all.\u00a0 Hope and Change.\u00a0 Romney simply means to continue the policies of secret unilateral murder pioneered by Obama.\u00a0 He is not an original thinker and is notoriously timid and changeable in his convictions.\u00a0 Why not let the man who really blazed the trail into a whole new species of war crime continue and *finish* the job of transforming the Executive into a lawless killocrat instead of handing the work over to a dull plodder who might even, in response to negative polls, stop blowing up four year olds <\/em>(albeit reluctantly, judging from his debate performance).\u00a0 We can\u2019t take that chance. This is a job that calls for ideological rigor and moral certitude, not Romney\u2019s amoral cynicism.\u00a0 Don\u2019t go soft now, America.<\/p>\n

Obama 2012: And make certain not one 4 year old Pakistani girl is left alive for Al Quaida to recruit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this really says it all about American unity\u00a0behind the President.\u00a0 Call him Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the imminent inaugurator of a Communist Shariah Atheist Islamic Police State\u00a0how they may, the \u201cProlife Right\u201d has no problem handing over to Obama the power to lawlessly murder whoever he pleases when it\u2019s a matter of guarding our precious freedom from attack by Pakistani four year old girls.\u00a0 Similarly, the Left has no problem ignoring the ACLU and bending over for the One when he seizes that power.\u00a0 We are one nation after all!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to defenses of Obama\u2019s drone war on Pakistani four year old girls I am getting from both \u201cpragmatic\u201d Lefties (you may remember them as the \u201canti-war Left\u201d) and kill-crazy conservatives (you may remember them as the \u201cprolife Right\u201d) who agree with Romney\u2019s enthusiastic support for the President\u2019s policies here, I may be nearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-39296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-god-king"],"yoast_head":"\nDon't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In response to defenses of Obama's drone war on Pakistani four year old girls I am getting from both "pragmatic" Lefties (you may remember them as the\" 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