{"id":16356,"date":"2014-03-07T17:29:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16356"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:45:20","slug":"bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-to-run-for-president-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/07\/bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-to-run-for-president-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders: &#8220;I Am Prepared To Run for President of the United States&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truthout<\/em> has the article from <em>The Nation<\/em> <a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/news\/item\/22316-bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-to-run-for-president-of-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bernie Sanders: &#8220;I Am Prepared To Run for President of the United States&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In some senses, Sanders is the unlikeliest of prospects: an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate but has never joined the party, a democratic socialist in a country where many politicians fear the label \u201cliberal,\u201d an outspoken critic of the economic, environmental and social status quo who rips \u201cthe ruling class\u201d and calls out the Koch brothers by name. Yet, he has served as the mayor of his state\u2019s largest city, beaten a Republican incumbent for the US House, won and held a historically Republican Senate seat and served longer as an independent member of Congress than anyone else. And he says his political instincts tell him America is ready for a \u201cpolitical revolution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they laughed when I said that Bernie Sanders could be the President to rein in the NSA. Reining in the NSA is probably the least significant positive change that a Sanders\/Warren or Warren\/Sanders administration would accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truthout has the article from The Nation Bernie Sanders: &#8220;I Am Prepared To Run for President of the United States&#8221;. In some senses, Sanders is the unlikeliest of prospects: an independent who caucuses with the Democrats in the Senate but has never joined the party, a democratic socialist in a country where many politicians fear [&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-16356","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\/16356","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=16356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16359,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16356\/revisions\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}