{"id":27529,"date":"2019-05-24T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27529"},"modified":"2019-05-24T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:26:15","slug":"how-obama-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/05\/24\/how-obama-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obama Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jacobin Magazine <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2019\/05\/obama-white-house-financial-crisis-hundt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How Obama Failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThese aren\u2019t the words of a Trump supporter, or even a Republican. Nor do they come from an advocate of some kind of Red-Brown alliance. The author in question is Reed Hundt, a high-level Democratic Party apparatchik \u2014 Al Gore\u2019s longtime advisor (and high school classmate), Bill Clinton\u2019s former FCC commissioner, a McKinsey consultant and a member of both the Clinton and Obama transition teams.<\/p>\n<p>Hundt is, in other words, a card-carrying member of the Democratic establishment. And yet he\u2019s written a book witheringly critical of not just the Obama administration\u2019s handling of the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, but of the Democratic establishment\u2019s response to it \u2014 an insider\u2019s step-by-step account of all the mistakes, false assumptions, and timidities that, over Obama\u2019s eight years, helped deliver the electorate into the hands of Trump.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is articles like this that assure me that nothing less than Bernie Sanders will do. If the Democrats prevent Sanders from getting the nomination, I hope the Green Party will run somebody who can get the job done. I am sorry to says that anybody without a deep team like Obama lacked, will not do either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacobin Magazine has the article How Obama Failed. These aren\u2019t the words of a Trump supporter, or even a Republican. Nor do they come from an advocate of some kind of Red-Brown alliance. The author in question is Reed Hundt, a high-level Democratic Party apparatchik \u2014 Al Gore\u2019s longtime advisor (and high school classmate), Bill [&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-27529","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\/27529","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=27529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27530,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27529\/revisions\/27530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}