{"id":12112,"date":"2011-10-05T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12112"},"modified":"2011-10-05T17:09:51","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:09:51","slug":"a-dark-day-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/a-dark-day-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dark Day for Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/10\/105741\/\">Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012<\/a>. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin&#8217;s uterus, the nation&#8217;s less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2008-06-06\/entertainment\/17120245_1_obama-s-presence-new-age-black-president\">Lightworker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thoughtful_liberal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12113\" style=\"margin: 7px;\" title=\"Thoughtful liberal is too heartbroken to castigate Republican misogynists today.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thoughtful_liberal-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thoughtful liberal is too heartbroken to castigate Republican misogynists today.\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thoughtful_liberal-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/thoughtful_liberal.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s not fair. Why, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/10\/sarah-damocles-palin.html\">Andrew just blogged his little heart out about evil Sarah a few hours ago<\/a>! And <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/09\/the-un-bush.html\">what did he have to say<\/a> about the man who just executed a U.S. citizen without even the pretense of due process?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama has ended torture and pursued a real war, not an ideological spectacle. He has destroyed almost all of al Qaeda of 9\/11 (if Zawahiri is taken out, no one is left), obliterated its ranks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, found and killed bin Laden, in a daring raid pushed relentlessly by the president alone, capturing alongside a trove of intelligence, procured as a consequence of courage and tenacity rather than cowardice and torture. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001, I wondered if Bush would be the president to win this war, while hoping he would. I wondered if his errors might lead to a successor who learned from them. That hope has now been fulfilled &#8211; more swiftly and decisively than I once dared to dream about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin will not run for president in 2012. Though Andrew Sullivan can be expected to persist in his quest to deploy U.N. inspectors to Palin&#8217;s uterus, the nation&#8217;s less-cracked Obamatons will have to build a new uber-bogeyman to juxtapose with the Lightworker. It&#8217;s not fair. Why, Andrew just blogged his little heart out about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,61,440,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-sullivan","category-democrats","category-liberals","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"_social_image_url":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12133,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions\/12133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}