{"id":13716,"date":"2012-01-18T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=13716"},"modified":"2012-01-18T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:03:30","slug":"obama-vs-romney-there-goes-one-lesser-of-two-evils-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/obama-vs-romney-there-goes-one-lesser-of-two-evils-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama vs. Romney: There Goes One Lesser-of-Two-Evils Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obomney1.png\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-13721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Obomney1-294x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>Kevin Drum, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battle-of-thermopylae.eu\/complementary_leonidas_i.html\">Leonidas<\/a> of the left 49-yard line, <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/01\/president-romney-vs-president-obama-cage-match\">predicts the ways in which a Romney presidency would differ from an Obama presidency<\/a>. Drum assumes that Romney would have a Republican majority in the Senate, so this is not a best-case scenario for liberals. I scanned the list for anything related to foreign policy and civil liberties, and here&#8217;s all I found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We might stay in Afghanistan significantly longer than we would otherwise \u2014 though I&#8217;m not sure about this. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Romney has talked tough on China, but that&#8217;s just campaign bushwa. He&#8217;d quickly find out that his options are extremely limited on this score. On foreign policy more generally, Obama is actually fairly tenacious, despite Romney&#8217;s bluster to the contrary, and I doubt that Romney would be able to move much further to his right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, on two sprawling issues that could make a difference in a tight race, it&#8217;s practically a wash. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/01\/10\/what_makes_a_progressive_president\/singleton\/\">No wonder liberals have aimed so much ire at another Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum, the Leonidas of the left 49-yard line, predicts the ways in which a Romney presidency would differ from an Obama presidency. Drum assumes that Romney would have a Republican majority in the Senate, so this is not a best-case scenario for liberals. I scanned the list for anything related to foreign policy and [&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":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,61,457,164,440,513,62,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-democrats","category-kevin-drum","category-liberal-interventionism","category-liberals","category-mitt-romney","category-republicans","category-ron-paul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716","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=13716"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13733,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions\/13733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}