{"id":17,"date":"2008-02-05T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/05\/on-defining-a-superpower\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:39:18","slug":"on-defining-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/02\/05\/on-defining-a-superpower\/","title":{"rendered":"On Defining A Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"

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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u00a0– Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/p>\n

What defines a superpower? What says, after much speculation that America’s power is fading and that we are done for?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is it the Summer 07 housing crisis that has led to a bank and a january 08 stock crisis?<\/span><\/p>\n

No.<\/span><\/p>\n

What defines us, the US, as being still powerful in the world is this:\u00a0 The BBC dedicated 5 hours on Feb 5th, 07, known as Super-Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Let me <\/span>repeat<\/span><\/em> that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The BBC dedicated <\/span>five hours<\/span><\/em> of programing to covering a <\/span>U.S. election<\/span><\/em>. \u00a0<\/span>A PRIMARY<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am sure it will be covered over the world, but a primary? \u00a0A race where there aren’t even nominees yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Primary.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow, we can be called the washed up America, the lost America and even the Fallen America; \u00a0On this day, I’m calling us simple:The United States of America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u00a0– Abraham Lincoln What defines a superpower? What says, after much speculation that America’s power is fading and that we are done for?\u00a0 Is it the Summer 07 housing crisis that has led to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,34,36,35,37],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truthiness","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-election","tag-primary","tag-superpower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}