{"id":425,"date":"2011-08-29T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/08\/our-god-king-continues-to-impress\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T20:29:09","slug":"our-god-king-continues-to-impress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/08\/our-god-king-continues-to-impress.html","title":{"rendered":"Our God King Continues to Impress"},"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.counterpunch.org\/2011\/08\/24\/pax-obama\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Behold the Change on the War Front<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could it be that when Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama leaves office that the defining image of his presidency will have been his use of unmanned drone aircraft and military death squads to achieve the will of the Empire?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Answer to that question is provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/sergesblog.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Conservative Blog for Peace<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, even though he deserves that (unlike the presidency or the Nobel), because  unless the sh*t hits the fan big time, unless lots of now affluent whites end up  homeless in the depression and\/or their kids get drafted to go to war overseas  like Vietnam, and\/or to enforce martial law here, white guilt will keep patting  him on the back and ignoring what he says or does, because voting for him is all  about making some whites feel good. Or when you\u2019re not identified with the Wrong  Kind of White People you can get away with murder. <\/p>\n<p>My standard disclaimer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/pa3\/OldWorldBasic\/peaceonearth.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I\u2019m not a  pacifist nor anti-military.<\/a> Drone planes like any weapon can be abused but  if you\u2019re fighting a real enemy, somebody who wants to take over your town and  hurt you and your family, they\u2019re wonderful militarily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And big changes on the Deficit Front!:<\/p>\n<p>But we should cut him some slack on that since, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDIQqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flatimesblogs.latimes.com%2Fjacketcopy%2F2011%2F08%2Fdick-cheney-in-my-time.html&amp;ei=_sFXTo2ZLoragAeVn7CIDA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGy4RDoMnJk03zR7zpvmcPBQAok5Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rich War Criminal Who Wants You to Buy His New Book<\/a> instructed us as his administration began plunging us into debt, \u201cDeficits Don\u2019t Matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are looking for a third party.  I\u2019m hoping, faintly, for a second party.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the Change on the War Front: Could it be that when Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama leaves office that the defining image of his presidency will have been his use of unmanned drone aircraft and military death squads to achieve the will of the Empire? 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