{"id":599,"date":"2010-10-31T15:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=599"},"modified":"2010-10-31T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T19:40:34","slug":"an-october-2012-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"An October 2012 Surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investorsinsight.com\/blogs\/john_mauldins_outside_the_box\/archive\/2010\/10\/27\/u-s-midterm-elections-obama-and-iran.aspx\">Iran may be the unlucky recipient of a US attack in 2012.<\/a> This would come right around the run-up to the election, so as to present the most patriotic side of things. The Congress is likely to be deadlocked after the mid-terms, so Obama&#8217;s not likely to get a domestic victory to base his re-election hopes on. In foreign policy, Afghanistan and Iraq don&#8217;t offer opportunities, Palestine is  usually a negotiating hole, and China and Russia can bite back. Iran is weak and &#8220;could have a nuclear weapon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the linked article and discuss. But that&#8217;s my call: if Obama&#8217;s popularity numbers aren&#8217;t good enough for re-election in 2012, look for them to surge when he reluctantly has to start bombing Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran may be the unlucky recipient of a US attack in 2012. This would come right around the run-up to the election, so as to present the most patriotic side of things. The Congress is likely to be deadlocked after the mid-terms, so Obama&#8217;s not likely to get a domestic victory to base his re-election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}