{"id":1280,"date":"2009-04-16T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2009-04-16T07:13:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T12:13:42","slug":"statecraft-v-stagecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/statecraft-v-stagecraft","title":{"rendered":"Statecraft v. Stagecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1279\" title=\"iraqstage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/iraqstage-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"iraqstage\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/iraqstage-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/iraqstage.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above is a picture of the reception President Obama received upon his &#8220;surprise visit&#8221; to Baghdad last week. I remember thinking when I first saw this picture that our troops in Iraq were showing great respect for the president, and I even said so on my radio program. But I also found the above photo to be a striking contrast to the cool reception Obama received from the Marines on a visit to Camp Lejeune:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n7ZYVbO4HmM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n7ZYVbO4HmM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, however, that the photo in Baghdad was staged by Obama&#8217;s handlers.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/jeff_emanuel\/2009\/04\/12\/cam-sham-obamas-photo-op-with-cheering-camera-wielding-troops-100-staged\/\">RedState.com comes this interesting revelation:<\/a> a sergeant who was there says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe were pre-screened, asked by officials \u2018Who voted for Obama?\u2019, and then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take a close look at the cameras in the photo and notice that they are all the same model. Coincidence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above is a picture of the reception President Obama received upon his &#8220;surprise visit&#8221; to Baghdad last week. I remember thinking when I first saw this picture that our troops in Iraq were showing great respect for the president, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/statecraft-v-stagecraft\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1284,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}