{"id":2218,"date":"2011-06-23T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2011-06-23T20:04:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T00:04:52","slug":"obama-the-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/23\/obama-the-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is a Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lind, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/06\/21\/lind_obama_republican\/index.html\">column<\/a> on Salon.com, proposes that Barack Obama run as a Republican candidate in 2012, thus freeing up room for a real Democrat.  That won&#8217;t happen, of course, but reading his column certainly highlights what is wrong with the Democratic Party these days.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the column, in which Lind imagines Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech at the Republican convention:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have fought against the failed tradition of New Deal liberalism from the strongest possible position &#8212; the presidency. When the liberals wanted to nationalize the banks, I bailed them out and let their executives reap huge bonuses, thanks to the taxpayers. When the liberals wanted an expansion of Lyndon Johnson\u2019s big government Medicare, I said no and pushed for a version of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s healthcare coverage plan and what Mitt Romney did in Massachusetts. When the liberals wanted a bigger stimulus, I drew the line in the sand. When the liberals criticized the Bowles-Simpson plan to gut Social Security and Medicare, I praised it. When the liberals demanded tougher action against Chinese mercantilist policies that hurt our manufacturing industries, I said no and sided with the U.S. multinationals that want to appease the Chinese government. When the liberals wanted America to withdraw from Afghanistan, I sided with the neoconservatives and ordered the surge. When the voices of the old, failed liberalism said that Congress has a part to play in authorizing foreign wars, I ignored that radical liberal assault on unchecked, arbitrary presidential power and ordered the U.S. to war in Libya on my own authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole column &#8211; it might get you to thinking.  And thinking is what the elites who run this country do NOT want you to do!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Obama.jpg\" alt=\"Obama.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"520\" height=\"99\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More on this advertisement <a href=\"http:\/\/newprogs.org\/primary-obama-ads-roll-through-dc\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lind, in a column on Salon.com, proposes that Barack Obama run as a Republican candidate in 2012, thus freeing up room for a real Democrat. That won&#8217;t happen, of course, but reading his column certainly highlights what is wrong <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/23\/obama-the-republican\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}