{"id":4213,"date":"2008-03-03T14:50:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T21:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2008-03-03T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T21:50:30","slug":"obama-and-progressivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/p>\n<p>Margaret Kimberley, an editor for Black Agenda Report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=539&amp;Itemid=1\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The rush to tag along with Barack Obama\u2019s presidential juggernaut shows beyond doubt that progressive \u201cmovement\u201d politics is \u201con its death bed\u201d in the United States, on both sides of the racial divide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter that as a United States Senator his votes on Iraq are the same as Hillary Clinton&#8217;s. It doesn&#8217;t matter that he once opposed establishing a deadline for withdrawal. It doesn&#8217;t matter that he parrots the words of Republicans when he speaks of &#8220;the excesses of the 60s and 70s.&#8221; None of what he says matters, because speaking up would mean fighting back, and there is no movement left to do that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/614\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=614&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Kimberley, an editor for Black Agenda Report, writes:<br \/>\nThe rush to tag along with Barack Obama\u2019s presidential juggernaut shows beyond doubt that progressive \u201cmovement\u201d politics is \u201con its death bed\u201d in the United States, on both sides of the racial divide.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t seem to matter that as a United States Senator his votes on Iraq [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4213","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\/4213","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}