{"id":183867,"date":"2012-10-28T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/28\/a-must-read\/"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T22:46:00","slug":"a-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/28\/a-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"A Must Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6TiXUF9xbTo\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/americablog.com\/2012\/10\/why-vote-for-romney.html\">Americablog<\/a> for the vid<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Matt Stoller has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/10\/27\/the_progressive_case_against_obama\/\">very well thought argument given the progressive case <b>against<\/b> Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So why oppose Obama? Simply, it is the shape of the society Obama is crafting that I oppose, and I intend to hold him responsible, such as I can, for his actions in creating it. Many Democrats are disappointed in Obama. Some feel he\u2019s a good president with a bad Congress. Some feel he\u2019s a good man, trying to do the right thing, but not bold enough. Others think it\u2019s just the system, that anyone would do what he did. I will get to each of these sentiments, and pragmatic questions around the election, but I think it\u2019s important to be grounded in policy outcomes. Not, what did Obama try to do, in his heart of hearts? But what kind of America has he actually delivered?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obama had a number of things that he could do without the Consent of congress, holding torturers accountable, prosecuting corrupt bankers, etc.&nbsp; In every case, his decisions have served to further empower, and to further immunize, powerful wrongdoers in our society.<\/p>\n<p>I recommend that you read the whole article.<\/p>\n<p>A counter argument by Joss Weadon(see vid) involves Zombies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/t Americablog for the vid Matt Stoller has a very well thought argument given the progressive case against Obama: So why oppose Obama? Simply, it is the shape of the society Obama is crafting that I oppose, and I intend to hold him responsible, such as I can, for his actions in creating it. Many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867"}],"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=183867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}