{"id":189295,"date":"2010-04-22T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/obamas-speech-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:20:00","slug":"obamas-speech-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/obamas-speech-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it, actually read it in the closed caption, I was at the gym on a stationary bicycle, and my reaction was that it was a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the banks to get on board, basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63K5DX20100422\">scolding them<\/a>, but did not name names, or otherwise get medieval on them.<\/p>\n<p>The American public <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">hates<\/span> the big banks, which, BTW, should be referred to exclusively as Wall Street Banks, even if the effect on poll numbers on financial reform are minor, as <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/i-think-that-this-is-misleading.html\">I have argued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bankers are not stake holders, they are malefactors, and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n<p>Saying, &#8220;Can&#8217;t we all just get along,&#8221; is both bad politics, and bad policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw it, actually read it in the closed caption, I was at the gym on a stationary bicycle, and my reaction was that it was a missed opportunity. He asked the banks to get on board, basically scolding them, but did not name names, or otherwise get medieval on them. The American public hates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1067,1004,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-communications","category-finance","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189295"}],"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=189295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}