{"id":185402,"date":"2011-07-10T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/10\/this-is-a-righteous-rant\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T00:12:00","slug":"this-is-a-righteous-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/10\/this-is-a-righteous-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a Righteous Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t agree with Riverdaughter&#8217;s suggestion that <a href=\"http:\/\/riverdaughter.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/07\/its-change-alright\/\">Hillary Clinton should primary Obama in 2012<\/a>, Hillary is a spent force in presidential politics, but her basic thesis, that Mr. Hopey Changey is a &#8220;weak Republican in disguise,&#8221;, is one that I have maintained <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/obama-should-not-be-hanging-out-with.html\">since October 21, 2007<\/a> (see the full story of what informed my opinion <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=McClurkin\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I have to agree with Kevin Drum, this stuff ain&#8217;t eleventy dimensional chess.&nbsp; He declined to extend the debt limit, and as a result now proposes gutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, because <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2011\/07\/obama-ready-go-big-budget-deal\">that is what he really wants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In any case <a href=\"http:\/\/riverdaughter.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/07\/its-change-alright\/\">read Riverdaughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I don&#8217;t agree with Riverdaughter&#8217;s suggestion that Hillary Clinton should primary Obama in 2012, Hillary is a spent force in presidential politics, but her basic thesis, that Mr. Hopey Changey is a &#8220;weak Republican in disguise,&#8221;, is one that I have maintained since October 21, 2007 (see the full story of what informed my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1002,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185402"}],"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=185402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}