{"id":9496,"date":"2012-08-03T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/03\/obamas-false-alternative\/"},"modified":"2012-08-03T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T11:20:05","slug":"obamas-false-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/03\/obamas-false-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s False Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01676907ad5c970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Obama Kiss\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01676907ad5c970b\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01676907ad5c970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Obama Kiss\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/07\/who-built-the-internet-obamas-straw-man-fallacy.html\" rel=\"autointext\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Who Built the Internet? Obama&#39;s Straw Man Fallacy\">Obama<\/a> apparently thinks that the only alternative to omni-intrusive, ever-expanding government is some sort of &#39;rugged individualism&#39; according to which each individual pulls himself up by his own pony-tail in the manner of the celebrated Baron von Muenchhausen.&#0160; Bullshit. False alternative.&#0160; That he would push this false alternative is a good illustration of Obama&#39;s mendacity.&#0160; There is a way to avoid the extremes:&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/04\/social-justice-or-subsidiarity.html\" target=\"_self\">subsidiarity<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama apparently thinks that the only alternative to omni-intrusive, ever-expanding government is some sort of &#39;rugged individualism&#39; according to which each individual pulls himself up by his own pony-tail in the manner of the celebrated Baron von Muenchhausen.&#0160; Bullshit. False alternative.&#0160; That he would push this false alternative is a good illustration of Obama&#39;s mendacity.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/03\/obamas-false-alternative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama&#8217;s False Alternative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}