{"id":10630,"date":"2012-04-09T06:49:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:02:20","slug":"elizabeth-warren-i-cannot-do-this-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/04\/09\/elizabeth-warren-i-cannot-do-this-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren &#8211; &#8220;I cannot do this alone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have taken to heart this video by Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jRjoBc0iro?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>The reason my postings to my blog have slowed down in the last few weeks is because I have been devoting a lot of time to work with a small group to build a volunteer force in Sturbridge and the surrounding area to work for Warren&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>After listening to complaints (and making some of my own) that there was not a lot of action in this area for the Warren campaign, I decided to go back to that phrase my sister taught me when we were young, &#8220;Don&#8217;t just stand there, do something!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So far our little group has collected over 400 signatures to get Warren on the ballot for the September primary. She needs 10,000. Last I heard, she had an estimated 40,000, but we aren&#8217;t stopping collecting until the deadline at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>We are now about to reach out to many more volunteers in the area. We will be trying to engage them in as many activities to further Warren&#8217;s campaign as we can think of.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions welcome. Volunteering to join us is also welcome. If you live in this area, we may be calling you soon.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>One reason that I think President Obama did not live up to my expectations of him, is that he and his team seemed to forget this message which he also espoused during his campaign.  <\/p>\n<p>He seemed to think he could deal with Congress on his own without enlisting the collective outrage of the voters.  The Republican&#8217;s on the other hand were before the cameras and microphones several times a day trying to rile up the outrage of the voters over phony issues and using misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>You might have thought that he would see the Republican&#8217;s tactic and say, &#8220;No fair.  I thought of this idea first.  I am going to do a better job of this than they do because this has been my specialty.&#8221;  It is such a shame to see a politician think that the skills for running for office do not have any overlap with the skills needed to govern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have taken to heart this video by Elizabeth Warren. The reason my postings to my blog have slowed down in the last few weeks is because I have been devoting a lot of time to work with a small group to build a volunteer force in Sturbridge and the surrounding area to work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27023,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/27023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}