{"id":19456,"date":"2015-01-21T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19456"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:42:30","slug":"bernie-sanders-responds-to-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/01\/21\/bernie-sanders-responds-to-the-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Responds to the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has a snippet from <em>MSNBC<\/em> respectfully titled <a title=\"YourTube video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=THRUxM7uqHs&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Responds to the State of the Union<\/a>. There is a <a title=\"Facebook post\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friendsofbernie\/posts\/779876015400738\" target=\"_blank\">post on The Friends Of Bernie Sanders Facebook page<\/a> where you can join the conversation about this video.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/THRUxM7uqHs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>In Sander&#8217;s answer about TPP, he failed to mention that if Obama would respond to Sanders&#8217; request and let Sanders have a peek at what was in the TPP, then at least he could make judgments about the TPP from more than just leaks about what is in it. Middle-class friendly Obama will let the titans of industry write the treaty, but he won&#8217;t let members of Congress see it. Makes me pretty sure Obama is hiding something that he knows the Progressives and the American public cannot accept.<\/p>\n<p>The treaty is so bad that Obama has to twist the arms of our trading partners to the point of breaking, and they still don&#8217;t want it. I guess this is called diplomacy in Obama&#8217;s eyes. (Why do they hate us so?)<\/p>\n<p><em>Morning Joe<\/em> really only wants answers to question framed in a way that makes Republicans look good and Progressives look bad. Even though Sanders was too polite, he did manage to turn those questions upside-down.<\/p>\n<p>Why were they interested in who might run for President on the Republican side, but seemingly uninterested on who would run on the Democratic side?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has a snippet from MSNBC respectfully titled Bernie Responds to the State of the Union. There is a post on The Friends Of Bernie Sanders Facebook page where you can join the conversation about this video. In Sander&#8217;s answer about TPP, he failed to mention that if Obama would respond to Sanders&#8217; request and [&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-19456","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\/19456","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=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19463,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions\/19463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}