{"id":8502,"date":"2011-10-26T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2011-10-26T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:08:00","slug":"president-obama-picks-a-worthy-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/10\/26\/president-obama-picks-a-worthy-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama picks a worthy enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <strong><a title=\"Salon Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/10\/26\/president_obama_picks_a_worthy_enemy\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama picks a worthy enemy<\/a><\/strong> comes from the Salon web site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn\u2019t want to be portrayed as a \u201cvillain,\u201d he should stop acting like one. On Sunday, McConnell complained about President Obama\u2019s efforts to make Republicans the bad guys for blocking his jobs bill. Now Obama\u2019s taking the fight directly to McConnell, and it\u2019s about time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video has an interview with the Joan Walsh, the author of the article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc81fa68\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=45038600&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc81fa68\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=45038600&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>As a previous post shows, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/09\/22\/why-do-we-believe-in-electrons-but-not-in-fairies\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">I do not believe in fairies<\/a><\/strong>, but I can still be captured by a good fairy tale.  So maybe this fight is the face of the real, new Barack Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article President Obama picks a worthy enemy comes from the Salon web site. If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn\u2019t want to be portrayed as a \u201cvillain,\u201d he should stop acting like one. On Sunday, McConnell complained about President Obama\u2019s efforts to make Republicans the bad guys for blocking his jobs bill. Now Obama\u2019s [&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-8502","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\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8506,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}