{"id":2550,"date":"2008-07-04T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T21:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/think-progress\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T21:07:31","slug":"think-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/think-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think Progress is a frequently updated accounting of the American political scene. Take your meds before you read it. peace, mjh<\/p>\n

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Think Progress \u00bb American Spectator: Obama would lead to \u2018fascism\u2019 in America.<\/a> <\/p>\n

In a recent American Spectator article, former Reagan White House political director and QubeTV<\/a> founder Jeffery Lord gives his vision of what \u201cAmerica would look like in an age of Obama.\u201d According to Lord, \u201cThe word is fascism<\/a>\u201c: <\/p>\n

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What freedoms will next be targeted with that deadliest trademark of an Obamalander \u2014 moral superiority? What do we have when the sole purpose of the government as run by the chilling principles of Obamaland is to \u201cuse the political process\u201d to remove freedoms large and small one by one by one?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Someone needs to speak it plainly. <\/p>\n

The word is fascism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lord isn\u2019t the first conservative to make such wild claims. Last month, former Newt Gingrich aide Tony Blankley wrote in the Washington Times that Obama might be a \u201cdictator<\/a>\u201d in waiting. (HT: Andrew Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Think Progress \u00bb American Spectator: Obama would lead to \u2018fascism\u2019 in America.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Think Progress \u00bb WSJ Editorial Page Ludicrously Claims That Obama Is Running For \u2018George Bush\u2019s Third Term\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\"bushmccain.jpg\"In an editorial<\/a> this morning, the Wall Street Journal stretches the limits of credibility and audaciously claims that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is the candidate running for \u201cGeorge Bush\u2019s third term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Think Progress \u00bb WSJ Editorial Page Ludicrously Claims That Obama Is Running For \u2018George Bush\u2019s Third Term\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think Progress is a frequently updated accounting of the American political scene. Take your meds before you read it. peace, mjh Think Progress \u00bb American Spectator: Obama would lead to \u2018fascism\u2019 in America. In a recent American Spectator article, former Reagan White House political director and QubeTV founder Jeffery Lord gives his vision of what … Continue reading Think Progress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}