{"id":16371,"date":"2014-03-09T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16371"},"modified":"2014-03-09T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T21:06:29","slug":"richard-d-wolff-obamas-economic-significance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/09\/richard-d-wolff-obamas-economic-significance\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard D. Wolff | Obama&#8217;s Economic Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truth Out<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/news\/item\/22277-obamas-economic-significance\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Richard D. Wolff | Obama&#8217;s Economic Significance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama&#8217;s proven reliability as outsider president extraordinaire &#8211; putting a disarming smiley face on capitalism&#8217;s depredations &#8211; is his administration&#8217;s economic significance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is time to face facts.\u00a0 The other sad fact to face is that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s political philosophy is to the right of Obama&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So many people ask, what might a more palatable candidate look like?\u00a0 TINA &#8211; there is no\u00a0 alternative, they say.\u00a0 So stop laughing when I feature posts like <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/03\/07\/bernie-sanders-i-am-prepared-to-run-for-president-of-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bernie Sanders: \u201cI Am Prepared To Run for President of the United States\u201d<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 As the Occupy Wall Street movement used to shout, &#8220;This is what democracy looks like.&#8221;\u00a0 It does not look like Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton&#8217;s political ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Out has the article Richard D. Wolff | Obama&#8217;s Economic Significance. President Obama&#8217;s proven reliability as outsider president extraordinaire &#8211; putting a disarming smiley face on capitalism&#8217;s depredations &#8211; is his administration&#8217;s economic significance. It is time to face facts.\u00a0 The other sad fact to face is that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s political philosophy is to [&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-16371","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\/16371","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=16371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16372,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16371\/revisions\/16372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}