{"id":15319,"date":"2011-03-30T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15319"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T19:15:54","slug":"justin-raimondo-you-lie-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15319","title":{"rendered":"Justin Raimondo: You Lie, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Libya, and much else<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/author\/justin\/\">Justin Raimondo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2011\/03\/29\/you-lie-mr-president\/\">Antiwar.com<\/a>, March 30, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t bear to watch  the President\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/03\/28\/remarks-president-address-nation-libya\">why-we\u2019re-in-Libya speech<\/a> as it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hUXEiwJiKj4\">broadcast<\/a>: it\u2019s  Spring, after all, and my garden needs planting. Priorities, priorities,  priorities: so important, in politics and in life.<\/p>\n<p>We all have our priorities:  I have mine, and the President of the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blog\/159336\/kucinich-warns-obama-libya-war\">has his<\/a>. As an indication  of the latter, I note that Obama waited a whole week after deploying  US forces before deigning to explain his actions to the American people.  He has yet to go to Congress for authorization, although he made sure  he cleared it with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0311\/The_domestic_politics_of_Libya_in_Frnace.html\">pushy<\/a> allies and the UN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/03\/21\/lind_libya_war\">Security Council<\/a>. Having  received this double-dispensation, Congress is for him but an <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:d2JZZUM189gJ:amerpundit.com\/2011\/03\/28\/full-prepared-remarks-of-president-obamas-address-to-the-nation-on-libya\/+%22And+so+nine+days+ago,+after+consulting+the+bipartisan+leadership+of+Congress,+I+authorized%22&amp;cd=82&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;source=www.google.com\">afterthought<\/a>.  This is the true meaning of \u201cmultilateralism\u201d: world opinion matters,  American opinion \u2013 not so much.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/justin\/2011\/03\/29\/you-lie-mr-president\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;You Lie, Mr. President&#8221; by Justin Raimondo<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Libya, and much else by Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com, March 30, 2011 I couldn\u2019t bear to watch the President\u2019s why-we\u2019re-in-Libya speech as it was broadcast: it\u2019s Spring, after all, and my garden needs planting. Priorities, priorities, priorities: so important, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Z5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15321,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15319\/revisions\/15321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}