{"id":20040,"date":"2012-11-05T02:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2012-11-05T02:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T05:09:07","slug":"usafa-cadets-argue-for-obama-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/05\/usafa-cadets-argue-for-obama-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Cadets Argue for Obama Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of increased sensitivity toward the US military and politics (from <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/new-rules-us-troops-banned-from-political-facebook-pages\/\">Facebook<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/soldier-reprimanded-over-ron-paul-endorsement\/\">reprimand<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/27\/facebook-marine-expresses-regret\/\">discharge<\/a>), it was unusual to read a report in which US Air Force Academy cadets participated in a debate on the presidential candidates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csfreshink.com\/profiles\/blogs\/cc-air-force-cadets-debate-presidential-election\">calling for the re-election of their Commander-in-Chief<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The event, held Oct. 29, in the heat of the run-up to the presidential <!--more-->election, featured Colorado College sophomores Jacob Kirksey and Nick Blanchette arguing for the election of Gov. Mitt Romney. Air Force Academy cadets Andrew Gallion and Brian Kruchkow argued for the re-election of President Obama, who is their commander-in-chief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Granted, it was an academic exercise.\u00a0 (Indeed, those who have learned debate also realize at some point you are required to advocate even the viewpoint with which you disagree.)<\/p>\n<p>As this was a combination of both &#8220;good&#8221; and <em>negative <\/em>training, one wonders if part of this academic exercise included the admonition to the cadets that they&#8217;re never allowed to <em>really <\/em>do what they <em>sort of <\/em>did here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of increased sensitivity toward the US military and politics (from Facebook to reprimand to discharge), it was unusual to read a report in which US Air Force Academy cadets participated in a debate on the presidential candidates, calling for the re-election of their Commander-in-Chief: The event, held Oct. 29, in the heat of the run-up to the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3668,3669,3665,1476,3666,2,3667,43,45,65],"class_list":["post-20040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-andrew-gallion","tag-brian-kruchkow","tag-colorado-college","tag-facebook","tag-jacob-kirksey","tag-military","tag-nick-blanchette","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}