{"id":1597,"date":"2008-10-14T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:54:39","slug":"random-thoughts-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, something <a href=\"http:\/\/captainsacrament.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/politics-please-for-love-of-god-just-be.html\">via Kyle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z0OzG58pQmM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/a><a title=\"Block this object with Adblock Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Z0OzG58pQmM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a McCain-Palin crowd that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/10\/06\/mccain-does-nothing-as-cr_n_132366.html\">shouts &#8216;kill him&#8217; about Obama<\/a> is not a crowd that deserves to win<\/li>\n<li>McCain doesn&#8217;t quite seem to be up to the job (sadly), proven through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2008\/10\/will_the_real_john_mccain_plea.html\">an essentially incompetent campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the more I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8630.html\">discover about Obama<\/a>, the more radically left-wing he seems to be; which actually makes him more interesting to me, as I have much more time for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chomsky.info\/\">the radical left-wing stance<\/a> than the conventional (=&#8217;big state&#8217;) left-wing stance<\/li>\n<li>whoever wins this election is going to have a harder job than possibly any other President in US history, including Roosevelt (but maybe not Lincoln)<\/li>\n<li>if Obama does well in that context he would deserve to win a second term, even if it was against Palin, whom I would otherwise prefer (in case you hadn&#8217;t noticed)<\/li>\n<li>I suspect that Obama may do better at domestic policy than international; that may prove his Achilles heel<\/li>\n<li>in particular, if Obama does end up being more conventionally left-wing, ie resort to state solutions, I think <a href=\"http:\/\/globalguerrillas.typepad.com\/globalguerrillas\/2008\/10\/journal-early-t.html\">he will come profoundly unstuck. At that point it won&#8217;t be the Republican party that will be out of power for generations&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firstly, something via Kyle: a McCain-Palin crowd that shouts &#8216;kill him&#8217; about Obama is not a crowd that deserves to win McCain doesn&#8217;t quite seem to be up to the job (sadly), proven through an essentially incompetent campaign the more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1597\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palin","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-pL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6753,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/6753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}