{"id":2324,"date":"2009-11-25T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:11:08","slug":"a-worthless-weekend-of-presidential-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2324\/a-worthless-weekend-of-presidential-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Worthless Weekend of Presidential Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-11-22\/think-before-you-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\">dubious value of his recent trip to Asia<\/a>, now comes an announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/25\/official-obama-going-copenhagen-climate-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama will be traveling to the glorified photo<\/a> op that is the denuded climate change meeting in Copenhagen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/25\/AR2009112501448.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">on his way to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>.  In both cases Obama\u2019s presence was assured only after any meaningful criteria were removed.<br \/>\nThe only meaningful accomplishment possible at Copenhagen is scheduling another meeting next year.  And of course, no single person on the planet can claim to live in a greater state of peace after 10 months of Hope and Change.  Such is the Obama approach to international relations, which is looking and sounding resolute when there is nothing able to be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of the dubious value of his recent trip to Asia, now comes an announcement that President Obama will be traveling to the glorified photo op that is the denuded climate change meeting in Copenhagen on his way to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. In both cases Obama\u2019s presence was assured [&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":[26,443,264,24],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-climate-change","tag-copenhagen","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}