{"id":828,"date":"2009-06-04T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2009-06-04T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:43:52","slug":"what-unites-us-vs-what-divides-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"What unites us vs. what divides us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the_press_office\/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Cairo-University-6-04-09\/\">celebrated speech<\/a> at Cairo University, Barack Obama&#8217;s main message was that we should focus on those things that unite us, not those that divide us. To quote, &#8220;It&#8217;s easier to start wars than to end them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to blame others than to look inward.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share.\u00a0 But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path.\u00a0 There&#8217;s one rule that lies at the heart of every religion &#8212; that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, many refuse to listen and instead, pursue their own extremist agendas. And this is not limited to followers of Al-Qaeda or the leaders of Iran. Self-appointed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/\">protectors<\/a> of the West from Jihad also managed to pick apart Obama&#8217;s speech, ridiculing every sentence, responding to every request to find that which is common by rejection and calls for hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, members of this particular nuthouse no longer run the show in the White House.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=828' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his celebrated speech at Cairo University, Barack Obama&#8217;s main message was that we should focus on those things that unite us, not those that divide us. To quote, &#8220;It&#8217;s easier to start wars than to end them.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to blame others than to look inward.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to see what is different about <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=828' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}