{"id":50882,"date":"2019-10-07T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50882"},"modified":"2019-09-11T14:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:55:06","slug":"qotd-politicians-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/10\/07\/qotd-politicians-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Politicians&#8217; promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>It is said of Obama that his every promise had an expiration date. That way of phrasing it seems almost too kind \u2013 as if each promise once had value and then lost it after it expired. Some promises are only <em>ever<\/em> meant to be believed \u2013 they are <em>never<\/em> meant to be kept.<\/p>\n<p>Niall Killmartin, <a href=\"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/04\/the-promise-that-was-never-meant-to-be-kept-is-now-the-hill-they-have-chosen-to-die-on\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The promise that was never meant to be kept is now the hill they have chosen to die on&#8221;, <em>The Great Realignment<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-04.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said of Obama that his every promise had an expiration date. That way of phrasing it seems almost too kind \u2013 as if each promise once had value and then lost it after it expired. Some promises are only ever meant to be believed \u2013 they are never meant to be kept. Niall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[158,188,480,1213],"class_list":["post-50882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-electionwatch","tag-hypocrisy","tag-kakistocracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-deG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50884,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50882\/revisions\/50884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}