{"id":2295,"date":"2009-09-17T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2009-09-17T12:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T16:09:00","slug":"thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Ed Morrissey, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/16\/a-brief-thought-about-jimmy-carter\/\">posting at Hot Air<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/15\/jimmy-carter-the-overwhelming-portion-of-animosity-towards-obama-is-racist\">Jimmy Carter believes<\/a> that the \u201coverwhelming\u201d portion of criticism towards Barack Obama is due to racism, does he also believe that the overwhelming portion of criticism towards Israel is anti-Semitic?&#160; Wouldn\u2019t that apply to a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/16\/video-useful-idiot-makes-himself-useful-to-hamas\/\">hangs out with people<\/a> who target Israeli citizens for terrorist attacks?&#160; After all, Hamas regularly issues anti-Semitic harangues and smears, and yet Carter has no problem cozying up to them and claiming that their criticism of Israel is legitimate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The race card is a two-edged sword, to mix metaphors.&#160; And when you use the term &quot;overwhelmingly&quot;, you expose yourself as someone desperate to handwave away any and all criticism by labeling it, rather than considering it.&#160; And Carter&#8217;s association with those who spew <em>actual<\/em> racist rhetoric is charmingly ironic.<\/p>\n<p>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riehlworldview.com\/carnivorous_conservative\/2009\/09\/ap-poll-60-of-america-racist.html\">60% of America<\/a> really racist?&#160; Do you really believe that?&#160; No, I don&#8217;t think Jimmy Carter really believes that.&#160; Assuming intelligence on his part, it can only be cover that he giving to Obama to try to marginalize critics.&#160; And it&#8217;s not working, as the numbers continue to drop for the One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ed Morrissey, posting at Hot Air: If Jimmy Carter believes that the \u201coverwhelming\u201d portion of criticism towards Barack Obama is due to racism, does he also believe that the overwhelming portion of criticism towards Israel is anti-Semitic?&#160; Wouldn\u2019t that apply to a man who hangs out with people who target Israeli citizens for terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,53,52,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-race-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}