{"id":11590,"date":"2012-07-20T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2019-03-27T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T00:13:31","slug":"obama-and-the-march-of-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/20\/obama-and-the-march-of-folly\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama and the &#8220;March of Folly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the third installment of what will be at least a four part series. The first two parts are in my previous post <a title=\"Part 3 of The Real News series\" href=\"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/07\/19\/the-hunger-games-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Hunger Games Economy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a title=\"Multi-part Interview on Real News\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=33&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">multi-part interview<\/a><\/strong> from <em>The Real News<\/em> finally puts together in one place the picture of the American future that I have been talking about for the last 32 years. This goes beyond what Elizabeth Warren has talked about.<\/p>\n<p>The main point of this installment is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama understands what needs to be done but like the Republicans, he responds to the needs of big money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzVpVMV01O8?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Jeff Faux gives his main reason for voting for Obama instead of Romney in the upcoming election.  It amounts to &#8220;at least Obama won&#8217;t be a complete disaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the third installment of what will be at least a four part series. The first two parts are in my previous post The Hunger Games Economy. This multi-part interview from The Real News finally puts together in one place the picture of the American future that I have been talking about for the [&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-11590","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\/11590","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=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27140,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/27140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}