{"id":2898,"date":"2012-10-16T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/10\/16\/quote-of-day_16\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:46","slug":"quote-of-day_16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2898","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15008,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nationalreview.com\\\/articles\\\/330505\\\/presidency-squandered-victor-davis-hanson&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s quote of the day comes from historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson. To my mind, Hanson is one of the most astute observers in America.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/330505\/presidency-squandered-victor-davis-hanson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his post in the National Review Online entitled &#8220;A Presidency Squandered&#8221;<\/a> in which he discusses all the advantages and goodwill that Barack Obama had going for him when he entered office in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<br \/>\n<i>And what happened?<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Barack Obama chose to ram down the nation\u2019s throat a polarizing,<br \/>\nstatist agenda, energized by the sort of hardball politics he had<br \/>\nlearned in Chicago. Rather than bring the races, classes, and genders<br \/>\ntogether, he gave us an us-versus-them crusade against the \u201c1<br \/>\npercenters\u201d and the job creators who had not \u201cpaid their fair share,\u201d<br \/>\naccusations of a Republican \u201cwar on women,\u201d and the worst racial<br \/>\npolarization in modern memory. Statesmanship degenerated into chronic<br \/>\nblame-gaming and \u201cBush did it,\u201d as he piled up over $5 trillion in new<br \/>\ndebt.&nbsp; Financial sobriety was abandoned in favor of creating new<br \/>\nentitlement constituencies, and job creation was deemed far less<br \/>\nimportant than nationalizing the health-care system.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>And so here we are, three weeks before the election, with a<br \/>\nsquandered presidency and a president desperately seeking reelection not<br \/>\n by defending his record, but by demonizing his predecessor, his<br \/>\nopponent \u2014 and half of the country.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>What, then, was Obama\u2019s first term?<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<b><i>Jimmy Carter\u2019s ends justifying Richard Nixon\u2019s means.<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat is indeed a bad combination &#8211; Carter&#8217;s ineffectiveness combined with Nixon&#8217;s paranoia and viciousness. God help us if he is returned for a second term.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s quote of the day comes from historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson. To my mind, Hanson is one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,507,3581],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-victor-davis-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8443,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions\/8443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}