{"id":19898,"date":"2015-03-19T16:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T20:29:04","slug":"president-obama-forces-republican-politicians-to-eat-their-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/19\/president-obama-forces-republican-politicians-to-eat-their-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama forces Republican politicians to eat their own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/03\/19\/1371921\/-President-Obama-forces-Republican-politicians-to-eat-their-own-words?detail=email\" title=\"The Daily Kos article\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama forces Republican politicians to eat their own words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video at the center of the article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aDXlPybx25A?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll really enjoy this.  Here is Obama at his best.  It would be great if more naysayers were held to their own records, especially when they are telling us how to proceed into the future.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the previous post, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/13\/the-science-of-protecting-peoples-feelings-why-we-pretend-all-opinions-are-equal\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">The science of protecting people\u2019s feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal<\/a>, explains why people can have such poor records of identifying the right answer, but people still listen to them.  Even some people, who have better performance records, sometimes listen to the losers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the article President Obama forces Republican politicians to eat their own words. Here is the video at the center of the article. You&#8217;ll really enjoy this. Here is Obama at his best. It would be great if more naysayers were held to their own records, especially when they are telling us [&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-19898","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\/19898","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=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19899,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}