{"id":187651,"date":"2011-04-13T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/13\/so-obamas-speech-was-this-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2011-04-13T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:24:00","slug":"so-obamas-speech-was-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/04\/13\/so-obamas-speech-was-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"So Obama&#8217;s Speech Was This Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read it, and it was <b>much<\/b> better than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>It is not what <b>I<\/b> would want in a perfect world, it&#8217;s pretty much a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> way center right prescription, though it was rather stronger that I expected.<\/p>\n<p>He did not sell out Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, and he did not hippie punch, and he framed the Republican plan as a transfer from poor to rich.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that he actually presented a moral argument here stuns me.<\/p>\n<p>My only problem here, and I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/13\/the-budget-speech\/\">Paul Krugman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I should probably say, I could live with this as an end result. If this becomes the left pole, and the center is halfway between this and Ryan, then no \u2014 better to pursue the zero option of just doing nothing and letting the Bush tax cuts as a whole expire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is clearly a first shot in the 2012 campaign, though I hope that is more than that.<\/p>\n<p>His statements about needing reforms in the social safety net toward the end of the speech worry me though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take what I can from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read it, and it was much better than I expected. It is not what I would want in a perfect world, it&#8217;s pretty much a 3rd way center right prescription, though it was rather stronger that I expected. He did not sell out Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security, and he did not hippie punch, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1038,1046,978,977,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-budget","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187651"}],"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=187651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}