{"id":10069,"date":"2012-06-04T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10069"},"modified":"2012-06-04T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:52:05","slug":"campaign-12-and-the-social-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/06\/04\/campaign-12-and-the-social-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign 12 and the social issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer lays out the bulk of the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/editorials\/2012\/06\/04\/drone-war-caught-in-obamas-mixed-up-morality.html\">If Bush did this&#8221; case against Obama&#8217;s foreign Drone War Policy<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Unfortunate that he has to be the one, the neo-con he.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Paleo-con Ross Douthart <a href=\"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/30\/the-social-issues-strategy-revisited\/\">points to the matter of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;social issues&#8221;<\/a> as palms against general economic lethargic status &#8212; it be the flip side for Thomas Frank&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s the Matter with Kansas&#8221;, in some way Obama 12 descends to Bush 04 on how to proceed against a flip flopping out of touch Massachusetts richy. \u00c2\u00a0Sure enough, fight off the heels of the political announcement on gay marriage, we got the pitch thrown out on Internet ad-sense ads: Stand for Gay Marriage.<\/p>\n<p>There is an odd thing at work here&#8230; look to the Democratic Senators who have not jumped on board what is now a permanent plank in the Democratic Party. \u00c2\u00a0Montana, Missouri, West Virginia. \u00c2\u00a0It could mean that this propels Obama to victory (Da Base) while providing some negative coat-tails for a further divided government &#8212; to that &#8220;Find the Democrat that fits the district&#8221; line that has always been the opposite of what is going on with the Republicans right about now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer lays out the bulk of the &#8220;If Bush did this&#8221; case against Obama&#8217;s foreign Drone War Policy. \u00c2\u00a0Unfortunate that he has to be the one, the neo-con he. Meantime, Paleo-con Ross Douthart points to the matter of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;social issues&#8221; as palms against general economic lethargic status &#8212; it be the flip side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10070,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}