{"id":4352,"date":"2011-12-07T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/name-that-socialist\/"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:38:37","slug":"name-that-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/name-that-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Name that socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/obamas-osawatomie-offensive\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQAFZlOZO_blog.html\">Obama\u2019s Osawatomie offensive &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe true friend of property, <strong>the true conservative<\/strong>,\u201d he declared, \u201cis he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man\u2019s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being.<\/font>\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/obamas-osawatomie-offensive\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQAFZlOZO_blog.html\">Obama\u2019s Osawatomie offensive &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s Teddy Roosevelt, a progressive who could not win any Republican vote today. Re-read that quote, substituting \u201ccorporations\u201d for \u201cproperty.\u201d In fact, he was quite explicit about the threat corporation pose:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/obamas-osawatomie-offensive\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQAFZlOZO_blog.html\">Obama\u2019s Osawatomie offensive &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TR, it\u2019s fair to say, would be appalled by the Supreme Court\u2019s Citizens United decision, which opened the way for corporations to spend vast sums in the political arena. In 1910, he declared: <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.<\/font> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/post\/obamas-osawatomie-offensive\/2011\/12\/06\/gIQAFZlOZO_blog.html\">Obama\u2019s Osawatomie offensive &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recommend you read the whole column by e.j. dionne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s Osawatomie offensive &#8211; PostPartisan &#8211; The Washington Post \u201cThe true friend of property, the true conservative,\u201d he declared, \u201cis he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man\u2019s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/name-that-socialist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Name that socialist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","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=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}