{"id":4499,"date":"2016-12-29T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2016-12-29T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T15:21:21","slug":"werent-double-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4499","title":{"rendered":"If it weren&#8217;t for double standards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rhodes, Obama&#8217;s Deputy National Security Advisor, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/2016\/12\/26\/white-house-tells-trump-only-one-president-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">12\/23\/2016<\/a>, reacting to Donald Trump&#8217;s commentary on the US allowing United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 to pass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cOn the president-elect, the first thing I\u2019d just say is that there\u2019s one president at a time. President Obama is the president of the United States until Jan. 20, and we are taking this action, of course, as U.S. policy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>President Obama on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/26\/politics\/axe-files-president-obama\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">12\/26\/2016<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean that if a year from now, or a year-and-a-half from now, or two years from now, there is an issue of such moment, such import, that isn&#8217;t just a debate about a particular tax bill or, you know, a particular policy, but goes to some foundational issues about our democracy that I might not weigh in. You know, I&#8217;m still a citizen and that carries with it duties and obligations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the President-Elect should shut up until he&#8217;s President, but a former President has a duty to speak out. Okay, then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rhodes, Obama&#8217;s Deputy National Security Advisor, on 12\/23\/2016, reacting to Donald Trump&#8217;s commentary on the US allowing United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 to pass: \u201cOn the president-elect, the first thing I\u2019d just say is that there\u2019s one president at a time. President Obama is the president of the United States until Jan. 20, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}