{"id":8498,"date":"2011-10-26T09:05:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8498"},"modified":"2011-10-26T09:05:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T14:05:20","slug":"michael-moore-obama-first-term-%e2%80%98heartbreaking%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/26\/michael-moore-obama-first-term-%e2%80%98heartbreaking%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Moore: Obama first term \u2018heartbreaking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this audio from BBC\u2019s Radio 5, broadcast Oct. 24, 2011.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<embed src=\"http:\/\/rawreplaymedia.com\/fvp\/flvplayer.swf\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"image=http:\/\/rawreplaymedia.com\/media\/2011\/1111\/bbc_moore_obama_111024a.jpg&amp;file=http:\/\/rawreplaymedia.com\/media\/2011\/1111\/bbc_moore_obama_111024a.flv&amp;logo=http:\/\/www.rawreplaymedia.com\/fvp\/rsvidlogo05.png&amp;link=http:\/\/www.rawstory.com&amp;autostart=false&amp;lightcolor=0x557722&amp;backcolor=0x000000&amp;frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&amp;showicons=false\" height=\"290\" width=\"480\"><br \/><\/embed>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cSo, he might actually just believe that. That may be just the sad, sad part about Barack Obama, that not that he\u2019s too timid or that he\u2019s too compromising, but he actually believes in a lot of what they believe in. I hate to say that.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Moore is coming around to a horrible thought that I have entertained. In July, I posted <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/02\/barack-herbert-hoover-obama\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Herbert Hoover Obama<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs I have been surmising, President Obama cannot forcefully stand up for the right economic policy for today because he believes in the wrong one himself.  My thesis is that Obama\u2019s mind has been poisoned by the remnants of Milton Friedman that still reside in the University of Chicago where Obama was a professor.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this audio from BBC\u2019s Radio 5, broadcast Oct. 24, 2011. \u201cSo, he might actually just believe that. That may be just the sad, sad part about Barack Obama, that not that he\u2019s too timid or that he\u2019s too compromising, but he actually believes in a lot of what they believe in. I hate [&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-8498","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\/8498","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=8498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8498\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}