{"id":40838,"date":"2015-04-12T01:45:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40838"},"modified":"2015-04-12T01:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:45:16","slug":"a-new-phase-in-anti-obama-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40838","title":{"rendered":"A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/12\/opinion\/sunday\/a-new-phase-in-anti-obama-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-04-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/opinion\/editorialboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Editorial Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama\u2019s agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent \u2014 to undermine not just Mr. Obama\u2019s policies, but his very legitimacy as president.<\/p>\n<p>It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans\u2019 earlier questioning of Mr. Obama\u2019s American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist in their message \u2014 reminding people that Mr. Obama was black, suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/12\/opinion\/sunday\/a-new-phase-in-anti-obama-attacks.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks The New York Times 2015-04-11 The Editorial Board It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama\u2019s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive. Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[2640,2327],"class_list":["post-40838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}