{"id":187946,"date":"2011-01-20T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T10:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/alan-grayson-for-president-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T10:42:00","slug":"alan-grayson-for-president-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/alan-grayson-for-president-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Grayson for President in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t believe it now, just wait until Obama tries to sell gutting Social Security and Medicare in his State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>I could be wrong, and if I am, I will issue a correction, but I think that it is clear that embracing right wing talking points is more important to Barack Obama than is good policy, and driving the &#8220;first stake through the heart of Social Security&#8221; is clearly seen as a big plum by Obama and most of his administration.<\/p>\n<p>We will know one way or the other in 5&frac12; days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t believe it now, just wait until Obama tries to sell gutting Social Security and Medicare in his State of the Union speech. I could be wrong, and if I am, I will issue a correction, but I think that it is clear that embracing right wing talking points is more important to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,978,977,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187946"}],"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=187946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}