{"id":7094,"date":"2011-08-12T07:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7094"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:22:40","slug":"rep-dennis-kucinich-we-need-obama-to-be-fdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/12\/rep-dennis-kucinich-we-need-obama-to-be-fdr\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Dennis Kucinich: We need Obama to be FDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) appeared Thursday night on Current TV\u2019s <a title=\"Dennis Kucinich's appearance on Countdown\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rawreplay\/2011\/08\/dennis-kucinich-we-need-obama-to-be-fdr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Countdown with Keith Olbermann<\/strong><\/a>, guest hosted by David Shuster, to discuss job creation in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich said America needed President Barack Obama \u201cto be FDR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need him to come forward and say, \u2018I see the great misery that exists in this country.\u2019 I see that not only are there 14 million Americans out of work, but another 12 million Americans are under employed. We have to put Americans back to work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the following video will show, almost no one is driving the point home these days as well as Dennis Kucinich.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KAYn-2OsIW8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I do cringe a bit when he goes off on the rant about China manipulating their currency.  I guess he can be forgiven when just about every politician from the far left to the far right harps on this same phony issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) appeared Thursday night on Current TV\u2019s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, guest hosted by David Shuster, to discuss job creation in the United States. Kucinich said America needed President Barack Obama \u201cto be FDR.\u201d \u201cWe need him to come forward and say, \u2018I see the great misery that exists in this country.\u2019 [&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-7094","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\/7094","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=7094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28464,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7094\/revisions\/28464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}