{"id":543847,"date":"2010-04-26T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roissy.wordpress.com\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2010-04-26T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:43:00","slug":"behold-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543847","title":{"rendered":"Behold Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee this morning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0410\/Obama_seeks_to_reconnectyoung_people_AfricanAmerins_Latinos_and_women_for_2010.html?showall\" >released this clip of the president rallying the troops<\/a>, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama&#8217;s express goal: &#8220;reconnecting&#8221; with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.<\/p>\n<p>Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to &#8220;young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We have crossed the threshold where our presidents don the head garb of tribal warlords, and don&#8217;t even bother extending the courtesy of lying to us anymore about their allegiances.<\/p>\n<p>PS If it&#8217;s a tribal war they want, it&#8217;s a tribal war they&#8217;ll get.<\/p>\n<p>PPS Libertarians are stoopid.<\/p>\n<p>PPPS Build a wall. And shoot the fuckers trying to climb over it.<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/roissy.wordpress.com\/category\/goodbye-america\/'>Goodbye America<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/roissy.wordpress.com\/5510\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=roissy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=756873&#038;post=5510&#038;subd=roissy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama&#8217;s express goal: &#8220;reconnecting&#8221; with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year. Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}