{"id":197223,"date":"2008-02-21T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/the-obama-nixon-connection-and-its-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:45:00","slug":"the-obama-nixon-connection-and-its-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/the-obama-nixon-connection-and-its-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama-Nixon Connection, and it&#8217;s a Good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2008\/02\/the_legislative_dynamics_of_an.cfm\">The Economist<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>As Mr Crook observes, Mr Obama is far from a centrist. His voting record suggests that, if elected, Mr Obama would be the most economically left-wing American president since &#8230; well, it&#8217;s hard to say. Richard Nixon?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He means it as an insult, I&#8217;d take it as a compliment, and there is an argument to be made that Nixon in terms of the economy and regulation was more liberal than any of his successors.<\/p>\n<p>I think, however, that the author of the piece overestimates Obama&#8217;s liberalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this quote from The Economist: As Mr Crook observes, Mr Obama is far from a centrist. His voting record suggests that, if elected, Mr Obama would be the most economically left-wing American president since &#8230; well, it&#8217;s hard to say. Richard Nixon? He means it as an insult, I&#8217;d take it as a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197223"}],"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=197223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}