{"id":20340,"date":"2013-09-04T18:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20340"},"modified":"2013-09-04T18:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:07:41","slug":"rewriting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20340","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Internet<\/a> is that whenever you say something it can be instantly checked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2013\/09\/04\/201163\/obama-i-didnt-draw-the-red-line.html#.Uier7n9Tbz0\">McClatchy<\/a> is reporting that today <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/politics.answers.com\/obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"answerscom\">President Obama<\/a> stated that he did not draw a red line concerning the use of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chemical weapon\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_weapon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">chemical weapons<\/a> by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Council of Ministers (Syria)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.5025,36.2696166667&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=33.5025,36.2696166667 (Council%20of%20Ministers%20%28Syria%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Syrian government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports the statement:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t set a red line, the world set a red line,\u201d Obama said. \u201cMy <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Credibility\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Credibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">credibility<\/a> is not on the line. The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"International community\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">international community<\/a>\u2019s credibility is on the line. And <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">America<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/politics.answers.com\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"answerscom\">Congress<\/a>\u2019 credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, there is an inconvenient video that was posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxxwfaIAl_Q#t=125\">YouTube<\/a> a year ago:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxxwfaIAl_Q\" height=\"285\" width=\"498\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The statement about the red line comes at about 1:54 in the video.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been nice if a grown-up President had confirmed his previous statement and stood by it. I don&#8217;t support military action in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Syria\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=33.5,36.3&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=33.5,36.3 (Syria)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Syria<\/a>, but I certainly would have more respect for the President if he were more honest about his previous statements.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with the statement made today is that the President typically refuses to take responsibility for his previous statements. There is no reason to assume that in the future he will take responsibility for his actions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=91850808-e5d8-4654-b0ea-32f70640f0f7\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with the Internet is that whenever you say something it can be instantly checked. McClatchy is reporting that today President Obama stated that he did not draw a red line concerning the use of chemical weapons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,6243,6245,6244,562,91,412,285,44],"class_list":["post-20340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-chemical-weapon","tag-credibility","tag-international-community","tag-obama","tag-syria","tag-the-mcclatchy-company","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20341,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20340\/revisions\/20341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}