{"id":183349,"date":"2014-12-18T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/as-dime-store-psychoanalysis-goes-this-is-pretty-damn-good\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T03:14:00","slug":"as-dime-store-psychoanalysis-goes-this-is-pretty-damn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/12\/18\/as-dime-store-psychoanalysis-goes-this-is-pretty-damn-good\/","title":{"rendered":"As Dime Store Psychoanalysis Goes, This is Pretty Damn Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2014\/12\/14\/the-problem-with-obama\/\">very interesting quote from historian Gary Wills<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">I think one of the things that may be hindering him is <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">that he\u2019s so aware that he is the change<\/span><\/b> \u2014 that it\u2019s such a break with our history to elect a black President \u2014 and that\u2019s such an odd thing to some people and that\u2019s why they\u2019re calling him \u201cnot an American\u201d or \u201csocialist\u201d or \u201cfascist\u201d or whatever \u2014 that he wants to emphasize continuity almost to a fault. So even though he came to national attention by opposing the Iraq War, he appointed his Secretary of State (someone who voted for the Iraq War), his Vice-President (someone who voted for the Iraq War), his Secretary of Defense (someone who conducted the Iraq War), the two generals in Afghanistan (who conducted the Iraq War). That\u2019s continuity, all right! But is it the continuity that we need?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is accurate, but this thesis is consistent with what we have observed over the past 6 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very interesting quote from historian Gary Wills: I think one of the things that may be hindering him is that he\u2019s so aware that he is the change \u2014 that it\u2019s such a break with our history to elect a black President \u2014 and that\u2019s such an odd thing to some people &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}