{"id":1769,"date":"2010-12-09T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2010-12-09T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:54:01","slug":"obama-just-doesnt-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1769","title":{"rendered":"Obama just doesn&#8217;t understand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well..this one just came to me a few minutes ago and I thought I&#8217;d try to see if I can make sense of it&#8230;.looking at the political maneuverings going on over the tax bill I&#8217;m struck by one consistent theme, that Obama won&#8217;t take on a fight unless he is sure that he can win&#8230;even when he constantly disappoints his supporters with what looks like compromise for it&#8217;s own sake. What kind of a win is it when you just fold up? Does that make sense? I guess what I&#8217;m trying to say is that there are times when taking on a fight because it is the right thing to do is a much nobler thing than compromising your principles and allowing something you know is wrong to continue. I think this is one of the reasons the left is so frustrated with Obama right now; he doesn&#8217;t seem to think anything, any principle or goal is immune to compromise when it is clear that saving the middle class is worth a fight, that repealing DADT is worth a fight, that keeping the repubs from stacking the deck against us is worth a fight. This is the time when we need a fight, even one for a losing cause so we can hold our heads up and say &#8220;we tried&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll end this with one question for Obama, &#8220;what IS worth fighting for?&#8221;..geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well..this one just came to me a few minutes ago and I thought I&#8217;d try to see if I can make sense of it&#8230;.looking at the political maneuverings going on over the tax bill I&#8217;m struck by one consistent theme, that Obama won&#8217;t take on a fight unless he is sure that he can win&#8230;even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=1769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama just doesn&#8217;t understand&#8230;<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,185],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-obama","tag-tax-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}