{"id":9301,"date":"2011-04-29T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2011-04-29T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T20:51:46","slug":"dont-overlook-the-phrase-i-coined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/dont-overlook-the-phrase-i-coined\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Overlook The Phrase I Coined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer, today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-obama-doctrine-leading-from-behind\/2011\/04\/28\/AFBCy18E_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions\" target=\"_blank\">The Obama doctrine: Leading from behind<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president\u2019s actions in Libya as \u201cleading from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2 issue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, but since there are no discernible ones that make sense of Obama foreign policy \u2014 Lizza\u2019s painstaking two-year chronicle shows it to be as ad hoc, erratic and confused as it appears \u2014 this will have to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, way back <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/ipods-apple-products-will-destroy-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\">in February<\/a>, I offhandedly called him &#8220;Hindmost Obama.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is more relevant if you&#8217;ve read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindmost#Politics_and_relations_with_other_species\" target=\"_blank\">the Ringworld novels<\/a>, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Krauthammer, today: The Obama doctrine: Leading from behind: Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president\u2019s actions in Libya as \u201cleading from behind.\u201d \u2014 Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker, May 2 issue To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}