{"id":2248,"date":"2011-08-02T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:47:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:47:11","slug":"still-gonna-vote-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/still-gonna-vote-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Gonna Vote for Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from an article written by Matt Tabibi and quoted in an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/08\/01\/debt_ceiling\/index.html\">article<\/a> by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, Barack Obama has surrendered control of the budget to the Tea Party. . . . Commentators everywhere are killing the president for his seemingly astonishing level of ball-less-ness. . . . The Democrats aren&#8217;t failing to stand up to Republicans and failing to enact sensible reforms that benefit the middle class because they genuinely believe there&#8217;s political hay to be made moving to the right.  <strong>They&#8217;re doing it because they do not represent any actual voters. <\/strong>    I know I&#8217;ve said this before, but they are not a progressive political party, not even secretly, deep inside. They just play one on television. . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link, read the piece, and weep for the future of the working class in this country.  And be sure and vote for Obama in 2012, you hear?  He&#8217;s intelligent, he&#8217;s handsome, and he&#8217;s an excellent speaker.  And he&#8217;s just doing what he has to do because of those really, really mean Republicans.  Right.  I want to smoke some of that stuff that you&#8217;re smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from an article written by Matt Tabibi and quoted in an excellent article by Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com: &#8220;Now, Barack Obama has surrendered control of the budget to the Tea Party. . . . Commentators everywhere are killing <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/still-gonna-vote-for-obama\/\"><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\/2248"}],"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=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}