{"id":9790,"date":"2011-05-20T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2011-05-20T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:11:08","slug":"were-all-neocons-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/were-all-neocons-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re All Neocons Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In an appearance on Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s &#8220;Red Eye&#8221; late night Fox News panoply of buffoons, neocon Godfather Bill Kristol exulted in President Barack Obama&#8217;s conversion to the &#8220;democracy&#8221;-promotion foreign policy championed by the Bush administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/30\/bill-kristol-declares-obama-a-born-again-neo-con-days-after-consulting-with-him-on-libya-policy\/\">reports<\/a> the <em>Daily Caller<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gutfeld asked Kristol how he felt about Obama coming to him for help (reportedly the president had met <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/2011\/03\/obama-makes-direct-libya-pitch-columnists\" target=\"_blank\">with him and others prior to his Monday night address<\/a>). &#8216;He didn\u2019t come to me for help, of course,&#8217; Kristol said. &#8216;I\u2019m not going to acknowledge that. He came to me to make sure I was supporting his sound policies. Of course, since his sound policies are more like the <a id=\"KonaLink3\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/03\/30\/bill-kristol-declares-obama-a-born-again-neo-con-days-after-consulting-with-him-on-libya-policy\/#\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">policies people<\/span><\/a> like me have been advocating for quite a while, I\u2019m happy to support them. He\u2019s a born-again neo-con&#8230;. What\u2019s the joke \u2013 they told me if I voted for McCain, we\u2019d be going to war in a third Muslim country? I voted for McCain and we\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ucru\/20110517\/cm_ucru\/riseoftheobamabots\">Obama-bots <\/a>&#8212; how&#8217;s that hopey-changey thing going?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an appearance on Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s &#8220;Red Eye&#8221; late night Fox News panoply of buffoons, neocon Godfather Bill Kristol exulted in President Barack Obama&#8217;s conversion to the &#8220;democracy&#8221;-promotion foreign policy championed by the Bush administration, reports the Daily Caller: &#8220;Gutfeld asked Kristol how he felt about Obama coming to him for help (reportedly the president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/9790","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9792,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}