{"id":190214,"date":"2009-12-21T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/what-john-said\/"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:16:00","slug":"what-john-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/21\/what-john-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What John Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2009\/12\/media-still-doesnt-get-why-left-is.html\">John Aravosis<\/a>, that is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama doesn&#8217;t seem to lack the will to fight on matters of principle, rather, he seems to<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> lack the will to fight on anything<\/span>.\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026We know that when you fight for something in politics, you can very often win. But <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">if you don&#8217;t fight, you&#8217;ll never win<\/span>. We are upset at the President and the Congress because no one fought for the public option, for the President&#8217;s own campaign promise. (As David Gregory rightly noted to David Axelrod during the same broadcast.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>We are not angry because he refused to fight for our own values, we are angry because he has refused to fight, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">period<\/span>, full stop.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the morals, or lack thereof.  It&#8217;s the cowardice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Aravosis, that is: President Obama doesn&#8217;t seem to lack the will to fight on matters of principle, rather, he seems to lack the will to fight on anything.\u2026\u2026 \u2026 \u2026We know that when you fight for something in politics, you can very often win. But if you don&#8217;t fight, you&#8217;ll never win. We are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1002,1051,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-good-writing","category-hypocrisy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190214"}],"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=190214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}