{"id":524,"date":"2011-05-02T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T06:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-05-02T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T06:21:40","slug":"im-with-barack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/im-with-barack\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm With Barack"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope he doesn’t mind me being so informal.<\/p>\n

I feel that partisan politics, which is a good and worthy form of discourse, not some sort of filthy taboo, should nevertheless stand at the shore and wait patiently for politicians and pundits to return from contentious overseas affairs.<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made that the subject is so important or time-sensitive that it trumps (how long will we have an asterisk after that word now?) everything else, but in reality, there are very few things so important AND time-sensitive.<\/p>\n

Now is a time to stand united and face the next week. \u00a0America is going to need resolve in the face of potential retaliation attacks, and the temptation to declare victory and get the H out of A.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the whole world is watching, and in a way that they don’t usually get to. \u00a0America has one President at a time, and while I have spoken of my HUGE issues with some of his policies, those have nothing to do with the important aspects of this story and this week. \u00a0There will be time for partisan politics later, and believe me, I will be there with bells on. \u00a0Big Liberty Bells.<\/p>\n

For the meantime, I appreciate the President’s actions which led to this wonderful moment. \u00a0Good job, J\u00e8fe.<\/p>\n

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I hope he doesn’t mind me being so informal.<\/p>\n

I feel that partisan politics, which is a good and worthy form of discourse, not some sort of filthy taboo, should nevertheless stand at the shore and wait patiently for politicians and pundits to return from contentious overseas affairs.<\/p>\n

There is an argument to be made that the subject is so important or time-sensitive that it trumps (how long will we have an asterisk after that word now?) everything else, but in reality, there are very few things so important AND time-sensitive.<\/p>\n

Now is a time to stand united and face the next week. \u00a0America is going to need resolve in the face of potential retaliation attacks, and the temptation to declare victory and get the H out of … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}