{"id":4358,"date":"2010-07-30T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2010-07-30T15:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T20:29:56","slug":"in-defense-of-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/07\/30\/in-defense-of-president-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of President Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suzana Megles has written the post <a title=\"Suzana Megles Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/In-Defense-of-President-Ob-by-Suzana-Megles-100730-580.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>In Defense of President Obama<\/strong><\/a> on OpEdNews.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Criticizing is so easy to do &#8211; but understanding the problems which President Obama faces daily requires that we try to support him as best we can. I also try to be as positive as I can. We seem to only zero in on our perceived negatives. What is that song&#8211; <q>Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My comment on <a title=\"OpEdNews web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>OpEdNews<\/strong><\/a> about her post was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been  posting a lot of comments indicating that this web site needs to publish  more items like yours.<\/p>\n<p>Call it positive reinforcement or  &#8220;Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative&#8221; (yes I remember the  song, I am only a few years behind you), most advice about how to  motivate people uses some variation of this.<\/p>\n<p>We do want to  motivate the President to do more good, don&#8217;t we? We also want to  motivate the voters to give him the Congressional majorities he needs to  make progress, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine we want him to do less  good, or strip away what Congressional support he has.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzana Megles has written the post In Defense of President Obama on OpEdNews. Criticizing is so easy to do &#8211; but understanding the problems which President Obama faces daily requires that we try to support him as best we can. I also try to be as positive as I can. We seem to only zero [&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-4358","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\/4358","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=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}