{"id":91668,"date":"2015-03-12T00:36:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91668"},"modified":"2015-03-03T14:52:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T21:52:27","slug":"obama-making-nixon-and-bush-43-look-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/03\/obama-making-nixon-and-bush-43-look-great.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Making Nixon and Bush 43 Look Great"},"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.salon.com\/2015\/02\/26\/he_makes_george_w_bush_and_nixon_look_good_why_obamas_attack_on_privacy_is_so_historic\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Robert Scheer on the Obama Administration\u2019s historic war on privacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes suspect that Obama\u2019s loud advocacy for abortion is his cover for all this. \u00a0His base is suckered into thinking he respects \u201ca woman\u2019s right to privacy\u201d as he dangles that rhetoric in front of them and they, by common consent, agree to be hypnotized by that while turning a blind eye to his naked assault on our civil liberties in a thousand other areas.<\/p>\n<p>So beautiful to see the right and the left come together in a common effort to make war on a common enemy: us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Scheer on the Obama Administration\u2019s historic war on privacy. 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