{"id":184309,"date":"2012-06-05T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/05\/troof\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:55:00","slug":"troof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/06\/05\/troof\/","title":{"rendered":"Troof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jamie Malanowski gets to the heart of the matter when he says that if Obama loses, his <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiemalanowski.com\/blogwp\/obamas-fatal-flaw\/\">refusal to prosecute the criminals at the big banks will be a major cause of this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This much is clear: if President Obama loses this election, the failure to hold financial titans legally, financially and morally responsible for this financial meltdown will be the factor that will have cost him re-election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that this was is also much of the reason for the 2010 debacle.<\/p>\n<p>Malanowski talks about bravery, and how Obama has the courage to take down bin Laden, but not the courage to face the banksters.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that this is a a matter of courage, but a matter of tribalism. <\/p>\n<p>I am not making a Kenyan Muslim reference here, but rather an Ivy League reference.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Barack Obama (Columbia and then Harvard Law) is simply unwilling to confront the old boy network which he joined when he went to college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jamie Malanowski gets to the heart of the matter when he says that if Obama loses, his refusal to prosecute the criminals at the big banks will be a major cause of this: This much is clear: if President Obama loses this election, the failure to hold financial titans legally, financially and morally responsible &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,970,1004,972,977,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-presidential-campaign","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184309"}],"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=184309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}