{"id":30119,"date":"2012-09-07T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/ticking-off-the-laundry-list-of-obligatory-speech-references.html"},"modified":"2012-09-07T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T22:06:51","slug":"ticking-off-the-laundry-list-of-obligatory-speech-references","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/ticking-off-the-laundry-list-of-obligatory-speech-references.html","title":{"rendered":"Ticking off the Laundry List of Obligatory Speech References"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I have to give Romney some defending\u00a0here — the idea that if he doesn't explicitly call out US troops for praise in a big speech means that he's an unpatriotic and evil politician who hates all our men and women in uniform is asinine. \u00a0It calls to mine the equally\u00a0petty "Look, he isn't wearing an American flag as a lapel pin, so he must hate America" attacks that Obama fielded 4 years ago.<\/p>\n

I don't think Romney's military policies are particularly well thought out, and his and the GOP's partisan attacks on the sequestration cuts that the Republicans agreed to are outrageous. \u00a0But those are much more objective matters than these kinds of attacks, whether from the Left or the Right.<\/p>\n

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Romney tries to defend himself and only makes it worse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Okay, I have to give Romney some defending\u00a0here — the idea that if he doesn't explicitly call out US troops for praise in a big speech means that he's an unpatriotic and evil politician who hates all our men and women in uniform is asinine. \u00a0It calls to mine the equally\u00a0petty "Look, he isn't wearing … Continue reading “Ticking off the Laundry List of Obligatory Speech References”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136120,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/trump-speaks-on-syria.html","url_meta":{"origin":30119,"position":0},"title":"Trump Speaks on Syria","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-18 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, that little speech was weird. 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