{"id":191401,"date":"2009-08-21T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/21\/well-dr-krugman-this-liberal-never-trusted-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-08-21T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T17:19:00","slug":"well-dr-krugman-this-liberal-never-trusted-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/08\/21\/well-dr-krugman-this-liberal-never-trusted-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, Dr. Krugman, this Liberal Never Trusted Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I figured that he would throw progressives and liberals under the bus since the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/search?q=donnie+mcclurkin\">Donnie McClurkin affair<\/a>, when Obama deliberately threw gays under a bus to win the South Carolina primary.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s done it with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rapid withdrawal from Iraq.<\/li>\n<li>Releasing torture photos.<\/li>\n<li>His support of &#8220;fair trade&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Stupid tax cuts in the stimulus package.<\/li>\n<li>Pursuing war crimes by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Bailing out the banks.<\/li>\n<li>Gays, particularly with Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell.<\/li>\n<li>The use of civilian courts to try terrorists.<\/li>\n<li>Closing Guantanamo (with an assist from craven Congressmen).<\/li>\n<li>Ra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now, Paul Krugman notices that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/21\/opinion\/21krugman.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">progressives have finally drawn a line in the sand on the public option<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">It\u2019s hard to avoid the sense that Mr. Obama has wasted months trying to appease people who can\u2019t be appeased, and who take every concession as a sign that he can be rolled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Indeed, no sooner were there reports that the administration might accept co-ops as an alternative to the public option than G.O.P. leaders announced that co-ops, too, were unacceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">So progressives are now in revolt. Mr. Obama took their trust for granted, and in the process lost it. And now he needs to win it back<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you think?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been saying this for over a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I figured that he would throw progressives and liberals under the bus since the entire Donnie McClurkin affair, when Obama deliberately threw gays under a bus to win the South Carolina primary. He&#8217;s done it with: Rapid withdrawal from Iraq. Releasing torture photos. His support of &#8220;fair trade&#8221;. Stupid tax cuts in the stimulus package. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002,1046,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191401"}],"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=191401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}