{"id":14901,"date":"2013-10-20T14:42:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T18:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14901"},"modified":"2013-10-20T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T18:54:43","slug":"adam-green-explains-what-a-progressive-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/20\/adam-green-explains-what-a-progressive-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Green Explains What A Progressive Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Green of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, was <strong><a target=\"_blank\"href=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/program\/AdamGr\" title=\"C-SPAN episode with Adam Green\">on C-SPAN<\/a><\/strong> for about 45 minutes explaining what a Progressive is, what progressive priorities are right now, and how they decided whether or not a political candidate is a bold progressive.  He answered a number of questions from viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Green was refreshingly articulate on what my kind of progressivism is. In a survey after seeing the C-SPAN episode, I rated his performance as nearly perfect.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object id='cspan-video-player' classid='clsid:d27cdb6eae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000' codebase='http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0' align='middle' height='500' width='410'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='true'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=315720-4'\/><param name='quality' value='high'\/><param name='bgcolor' value='#ffffff'\/><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true'\/><param name='flashvars' value='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=326546&#038;style=full'\/><embed name='cspan-video-player' src='http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?pid=315720-4' allowScriptAccess='always' bgcolor='#ffffff' quality='high' allowFullScreen='true' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' flashvars='system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?programid=326546&#038;style=full' align='middle' height='500' width='410'\/><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The only reason I did not rate his performance as perfect was his failure in a few instances to understand a viewer question well enough so that he could represent the progressive side as well as he might have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Green of Progressive Change Campaign Committee, was on C-SPAN for about 45 minutes explaining what a Progressive is, what progressive priorities are right now, and how they decided whether or not a political candidate is a bold progressive. He answered a number of questions from viewers. Green was refreshingly articulate on what my kind [&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-14901","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\/14901","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=14901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14903,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14901\/revisions\/14903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}