{"id":7137,"date":"2011-08-16T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T13:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2011-08-16T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T13:41:34","slug":"cenk-rips-cnn-obama-analysis-by-fareed-zakaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/16\/cenk-rips-cnn-obama-analysis-by-fareed-zakaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Cenk Rips CNN Obama Analysis By Fareed Zakaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aLUEH1L2NZ0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I go even further than Cenk Uygur in the above video.<\/p>\n<p>What I complain about is Obama&#8217;s complete lack of effort to defend my principles. Even if he still lost, he would have made a good, strong case for my principles.  Eventually the point might start to sink in with the public, 80% of whom already agree with the point that Obama should be making.  If Obama can&#8217;t rally 80% of the public, what kind of a leader is he?<\/p>\n<p>What we are discovering, though, is that Obama and his minions don&#8217;t believe in the principles I think he should be fighting for.  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/08\/06\/rep-dennis-kucinich-challenges-our-perception-of-obama%e2%80%99s-politics\/\" title=\"Rep. Dennis Kucinich challenges our perception of Obama\u2019s politics\" target=\"_blank\">The point that Dennis Kucinich has made<\/a><\/strong> is that Obama is not really losing his battles since Obama is really more on the side of the Republicans than we could have believed when we elected him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I go even further than Cenk Uygur in the above video. What I complain about is Obama&#8217;s complete lack of effort to defend my principles. Even if he still lost, he would have made a good, strong case for my principles. Eventually the point might start to sink in with the public, 80% of whom [&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-7137","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\/7137","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=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}