{"id":1052,"date":"2008-11-26T00:31:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:46:51","slug":"change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top: 1em ;\"><table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><th colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">United States Department of Defense<\/th><\/tr><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gates_robert_michael.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"226\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gates_robert_michael.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"226\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td><\/tr><tr><td align=\"center\">Robert Michael Gates<br \/>Secretary of Defense<br \/>18 Dec 2006 &ndash; 20 Jan 2008<\/td><td align=\"center\">Robert Michael Gates<br \/>Secretary of Defense<br \/>20 Jan 2008 &ndash; ?<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div> <p>I wonder just how long it's going to take the typical Obama supporter to <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">move on<\/span> from Denial to Anger&#8230;<\/p> <p>&#8230;or if, indeed, they ever will.  Much of politics has a sort of <em>tribalism<\/em> to it, under which people care far less about <em>policies<\/em> than they do about whether the co&auml;lition with whom they have identified themselves is in power.  My friend Ronald once noted that, in some political factions, a willingness to <em>turn on a dime<\/em> when it comes to doctrine is often seen as <em>the true test of merit<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States Department of DefenseRobert Michael GatesSecretary of Defense18 Dec 2006 &ndash; 20 Jan 2008Robert Michael GatesSecretary of Defense20 Jan 2008 &ndash; ? I wonder just how long it's going to take the typical Obama supporter to move on from Denial to Anger&#8230; &#8230;or if, indeed, they ever will. Much of politics has a sort [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,104,4],"tags":[135,45],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}