{"id":461,"date":"2009-07-16T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T20:31:04","slug":"how-we-got-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"How we got here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday I ask myself how did this happen, thinking about the current administration who&#8217;s policies, which if unchecked, are sure to turn this once great nation into a third world country, or worse. How did we elect a President that insults our allies and kisses up to the enemies of freedom as he rushes headlong to institute policies of a purely socialistic nature? A president who won&#8217;t &#8220;meddle&#8221; in the affairs of Iran or North Korea but forcibly dictates to Israel, who tells Russia that our defenses can&#8217;t protect us from attack. Who in his own words from Audacity of Hope:  &#8220;I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.&#8221; he seems to prefers sharia law over democracy.<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen in America? <\/p>\n<p>Total 2008 Voter turnout is estimated at 60.7% &#8211; 61.7% of all eligible voters.<\/p>\n<p>Obama garnered approximately 65.97 million votes and McCain 57.77 million, lets see, of all the eligible voters in the United States 33% supported Obama 27.7% supported McCain and 39.3% didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vote! Hardly an overwhelming victory.<\/p>\n<p>More math &#8211; African Americans comprise 13% of the electorate, 98% of those voted for Obama. If the African American vote mirrored the voting preferences (33% Obama &#8211;  27.7% McCain) of the entire country then Obama would have lost to McCain by over 6 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>What does this all mean? Nothing really just that numbers can&#8217;t be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest majority chose not to vote, indicating their happiness with the status quo! Why do we wonder how we got into this mess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday I ask myself how did this happen, thinking about the current administration who&#8217;s policies, which if unchecked, are sure to turn this once great nation into a third world country, or worse. How did we elect a President that insults our allies and kisses up to the enemies of freedom as he rushes headlong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nationalpolitics","category-nationwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.4info4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}