{"id":958,"date":"2009-04-08T23:24:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2009-04-08T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T05:24:28","slug":"dealing-with-the-demented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/08\/dealing-with-the-demented\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing With The Demented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/first100days\/2009\/04\/08\/join-group-talks-iran-nuclear-program\/\">heard on the radio<\/a> that the Obama Administration plans to conduct high-level talks with the Iranians. I guess we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised; he said he&#8217;d do as much during a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oSFSUbMWenU\">campaign debate.<\/a> Hoping that he wasn&#8217;t serious was just a little too much to hope for I guess. Or maybe he wasn&#8217;t serious, but has since decided that he needs to stick to all his campaign promises, regardless of how ridiculous. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious though; where do you go when dealing with a regime that has made clear their desire to wipe Israel off the map, and is very likely pursuing nuclear weapons so they can do just that? I can just about hear the exchange&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hillary:<\/strong> Ok, Mr. Ahmadinejad; your demand for the annihilation of the State of Israel is just too much. You&#8217;re going to have to make some compromises!<br \/>\n<strong>Ahmadinejad:<\/strong> Oh, ok&#8230; How about we just go for decimation instead of annihilation? Would your President go for that? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard on the radio that the Obama Administration plans to conduct high-level talks with the Iranians. I guess we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised; he said he&#8217;d do as much during a campaign debate. Hoping that he wasn&#8217;t serious was just a little too much to hope for I guess. Or maybe he wasn&#8217;t serious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}