{"id":188779,"date":"2010-07-30T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/30\/a-clarification-on-yesterdays-post\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T00:12:00","slug":"a-clarification-on-yesterdays-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/30\/a-clarification-on-yesterdays-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clarification on Yesterday&#8217;s Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the whole, I think that Barack Obama&#8217;s administration is immeasurably better than George W. Bush&#8217;s.  It is on the specific areas of immigration, the jihad against whistleblowers, the national security state, and Afghanistan where he is by all objective measures much worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/obama-is-objectively-worst-than-bush.html\">Yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, was about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">those specific areas<\/span>, and in other areas he compares favorably:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On healthcare, Obama is head and shoulders above Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>. (But still pretty lame and timid)<\/li>\n<li>On Labor, Obama is head and shoulders above Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>. (But still pretty lame and timid)<\/li>\n<li>On financial regulation, Obama is head and shoulders above Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>. (But still pretty lame and timid)<\/li>\n<li>On the budget and taxation, Obama is head and shoulders above Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>. (But still pretty lame and timid)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Huh, there appears to be a pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the whole, I think that Barack Obama&#8217;s administration is immeasurably better than George W. Bush&#8217;s. It is on the specific areas of immigration, the jihad against whistleblowers, the national security state, and Afghanistan where he is by all objective measures much worse. Yesterday&#8217;s post, was about those specific areas, and in other areas he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188779"}],"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=188779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}