{"id":1356,"date":"2008-03-17T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2008-03-17T21:25:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:25:34","slug":"obama-our-nanny-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Obama; our nanny-in-chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/Scranton2C-Pa-Iraq-war-veterans-MTV-Sen-Barack-Obama\/photo\/\/080317\/480\/b16ffb736d4e48f1a7ccd35a06dbe1d3\/\/s:\/ap\/20080318\/ap_on_el_pr\/obama_mtv_2;_ylt=AishVOSLWr1ORGoX2GaUYPxh24cA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20080317\/capt.b16ffb736d4e48f1a7ccd35a06dbe1d3.obama_2008_paab126.jpg?x=400&amp;y=249&amp;sig=sVd.vfMsEo_k6REYbxv5zQ--\" height=\"249\" width=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. participates in an MTV roundtable with Iraq war veterans, Monday, March 17, 2008, at Whistles Pub in Scranton, Pa. <cite id=\"captionCite\">(AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/cite><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Barak Obama says that our troops can walk around with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a loaded weapon, be responsible for millions of dollars worth of equipment, drive around the countryside in 26-ton vehicles, be responsible for the lives of several other humans and make daily life-and-death decisions. But have a beer? Nope, sorry. (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080318\/ap_on_el_pr\/obama_mtv\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrat Barack Obama on Monday promised Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans help with their grievances \u2014 save one. &#8220;I know it drives you nuts. But I&#8217;m not going to lower the drinking age,&#8221; the presidential candidate said.<\/p>\n<p>Army veteran Ernest Johnson, 23, of Connecticut, said one of the things that peeved him before he turned 21 was that he couldn&#8217;t come home and drink a beer \u2014 even though he was old enough to serve in the armed services and die for his country.<\/p>\n<p>Obama told Johnson he sympathized, but that setting the legal drinking age at 21 had helped reduce drunken driving incidents and should remain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For one thing, drinking ages are set by States not by the federal government (currently, the feds entice the States to have a 21-year-old minimum age with federal $$$). Secondly, why is it that Republicans are accused of trying to legislate behavior  when it Democrats who cling to regulations as the solution to all of society&#8217;s problems. Smoking, drinking, abortion, and lately, the size of our cars and the foods we eat.<\/p>\n<p>Is it any wonder that Obama gets almost perfect liberal ratings when he clings to such idiot nannyisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill. participates in an MTV roundtable with Iraq war veterans, &hellip; <a title=\"Obama; our nanny-in-chief\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1356\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama; our nanny-in-chief<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}