{"id":966,"date":"2008-06-25T19:53:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=966"},"modified":"2008-06-25T19:53:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:53:27","slug":"obama-sounding-very-presidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/06\/25\/obama-sounding-very-presidential\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Sounding Very Presidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/06\/obama_on_fisa_telecom_immunity.php\">tells us<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, the &#8220;security&#8221; of the American people overrides the Constitution.  Sounds a lot like a certain President, doesn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>Just for fun, let&#8217;s take another look at the Oath of Office for the President of the United States:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can someone help me find the part where it says &#8220;unless I think that the Constitution is at odds with security interests&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Obama tells us that: My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people Oh, the &#8220;security&#8221; of the American people overrides the Constitution. Sounds a lot like a certain President, doesn&#8217;t he? Just for fun, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}