{"id":72,"date":"2008-11-23T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:35:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T19:35:37","slug":"obama-is-not-a-liberal-and-never-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Obama is NOT a liberal and never has been"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been saying all along that Obama’s no liberal, and that he’s decidedly not gonna take this country in a giant lurch to the left (as much as I also always hoped he WAS a closet lefty who would do something great), and here’s a great article about that very idea.<\/p>\n

Yeh he’s WAYYYYY better than McPalin, and like another planet from Bush, but don’t think things are suddenly gonna get all rosy and soopoer-dooper just because, it’s not like that. Still, it’s pretty great anyway…….<\/p>\n

…….Liberals took cultural signifiers as a sign of solidarity and didn’t ask for anything. So, we have the great symbolic victory of the first black president (and that’s not nothing, by the way) who is also a bipartisan, centrist technocrat. Surprise.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been saying all along that Obama’s no liberal, and that he’s decidedly not gonna take this country in a giant lurch to the left (as much as I also always hoped he WAS a closet lefty who would do something great), and here’s a great article about that very idea. Yeh he’s WAYYYYY better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[108,109,106,31,105,73,107,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}