{"id":22229,"date":"2015-01-20T17:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T22:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22229"},"modified":"2015-01-20T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T22:23:05","slug":"statesmanship-in-tonight%e2%80%99s-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22229\/statesmanship-in-tonight%e2%80%99s-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Statesmanship in Tonight\u2019s State of the Union?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing at <em>The Federalist<\/em>, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/01\/20\/heres-the-state-of-the-state-of-the-union-address\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Carico gives some good advice<\/a> to President Barack Obama ahead of the latter\u2019s seventh State of the Union address tonight.<\/p>\n<p>After recounting the descent of the event into a Woodrow Wilson-inspired laundry list of to-do items, Carico distinguishes a statesman from a leader, defining the former as \u201csomeone who understands constitutional principles, leads by way of those principles, and seeks to make those principles work in political life. He seeks to achieve stature in public office through toning down divisions and appealing to reason, not simply attempting to win the fight of the day by practicing the little arts of popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carico\u2019s description of the statesman sounds arguably like what some people thought they were getting when they voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A19751-2004Jul27.html \" target=\"_blank\">the orator who said<\/a>, \u201cthere\u2019s not a liberal America or a conservative America; there\u2019s the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no coincidence that statesman-sounding Obama went from obscurity to the White House, while liberal demagogue Obama can\u2019t crack a 50 percent approval rating.<\/p>\n<p>For more of Carico\u2019s excellent analysis, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/01\/20\/heres-the-state-of-the-state-of-the-union-address\/ \" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing at The Federalist, my friend Andrew Carico gives some good advice to President Barack Obama ahead of the latter\u2019s seventh State of the Union address tonight. After recounting the descent of the event into a Woodrow Wilson-inspired laundry list of to-do items, Carico distinguishes a statesman from a leader, defining the former as \u201csomeone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,784,4202,2024],"class_list":["post-22229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-statesman","tag-woodrow-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22233,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229\/revisions\/22233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}