{"id":310,"date":"2007-12-23T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/23\/putin-and-romney-eerily-similar\/"},"modified":"2007-12-23T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T18:56:19","slug":"putin-and-romney-eerily-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/putin-and-romney-eerily-similar","title":{"rendered":"Putin and Romney: eerily similar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/times-interview-of-russias-putin.html\">In an interview for TIME magazine<\/a> as a part of its &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; cover story Vladamir Putin told the editors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First and foremost we should be governed by common sense. But common sense should be based on <strong><em>moral principles first<\/em><\/strong>. And it is not possible today to have morality separated from religious values. I will not expand, as I don&#8217;t want to impose my views on people who have different viewpoints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds eerily similar to what <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebostonchannel.com\/politics\/14789305\/detail.html\">Mitt Romney recently told the country<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is important to recognize that while differences in theology exist between the churches in America, we share a common creed of moral convictions. And where the affairs of our nation are concerned, <strong><em>it&#8217;s usually a sound rule to focus on the latter \u2013 on the great moral principles that urge us all on a common course<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview for TIME magazine as a part of its &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; cover story Vladamir Putin told the editors: First and foremost we should be governed by common sense. But common sense should be based on moral &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/putin-and-romney-eerily-similar\">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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}