{"id":11907,"date":"2010-12-10T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/slowpokeblog-flashback-on-obama\/"},"modified":"2010-12-10T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T20:15:02","slug":"slowpokeblog-flashback-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11907","title":{"rendered":"SlowpokeBlog Flashback: On Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years later, I find it interesting to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowpokecomics.com\/2008\/02\/more-election-thoughts.html\">what I wrote about Obama<\/a> on the eve of the 2008 Virginia primary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow is the Virginia primary, and for the first time ever I am considering intentionally not voting&#8230; The trouble is, neither Obama nor Hillary have shown solid progressive leadership. Both of them pander to the right to the point of grotesquery. I could almost forgive Obama his weak health care plan even though that issue is extremely important to me, but that &#8220;Harry and Louise&#8221; ad was so wildly irresponsible, it really made me question his judgment. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if Obama used his rhetorical talents to promote a real health care plan? He has also repeated right-wing lies about there being a Social Security &#8220;crisis&#8221;; his praise of Ronald Reagan was steeped in gauzy right-wing frames about the &#8217;60s, &#8217;70s, and &#8217;80s; and his campaign actually created an oppo page about Paul Krugman, a true-blue progressive hero whose intellectual integrity I greatly admire&#8230; Obama has been so reckless in his approach to these bedrock issues that I simply don&#8217;t trust him. Sorry to rain on the hope parade, people, but there it is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I actually admire Obama for what he managed to accomplish on health insurance &#8212; but aside from that, I&#8217;d say my misgivings were justified. Not that you&#8217;ll ever see <em>me<\/em> as a vaunted TV pundit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years later, I find it interesting to read what I wrote about Obama on the eve of the 2008 Virginia primary:<br \/>\nTomorrow is the Virginia primary, and for the first time ever I am considering intentionally not voting&#8230; The trouble is, neither Obama nor Hillary have shown solid progressive leadership. Both of them pander to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}