{"id":3537,"date":"2010-12-10T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/accepting-the-president\/"},"modified":"2010-12-10T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T21:30:23","slug":"accepting-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/accepting-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepting the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting take by Andrew Sullivan. Did the GOP just legitimized Obama\u2019s presidency?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/12\/how-do-you-compromise-with-stalin-ctd.html\">How Do You Compromise With Stalin? &#8211; The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By simply rallying behind Obama against his liberal base, the GOP leadership has deeply damaged the grass-roots campaign to make Obama seem like a remote alien, who has taken over America, rather than a president who is trying to govern it. That&#8217;s one big concession that cannot be measured in dollars and cents, and it will benefit Obama almost as much as the massive second stimulus the GOP just gave him for re-election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/12\/how-do-you-compromise-with-stalin-ctd.html\">How Do You Compromise With Stalin? &#8211; The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting take by Andrew Sullivan. Did the GOP just legitimized Obama\u2019s presidency? How Do You Compromise With Stalin? &#8211; The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan By simply rallying behind Obama against his liberal base, the GOP leadership has deeply damaged the grass-roots campaign to make Obama seem like a remote alien, who has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/accepting-the-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Accepting the President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}