{"id":551,"date":"2008-06-26T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=551"},"modified":"2008-06-26T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:32:44","slug":"two-ideas-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Two Ideas at Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2008\/06\/26\/olbermann\/index.html\">As Greenwald says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It isn&#8217;t that difficult to keep the following two thoughts in one&#8217;s head at the same time &#8212; though it seems to be for many people:<\/p>\n<p>(1) What Barack Obama is doing on Issue X is wrong, indefensible and worthy of extreme criticism;<\/p>\n<p>(2) I support Barack Obama for President because he&#8217;s a better choice than John McCain. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In this case &#8220;Issue X&#8221; equals FISA, and Obama is completely wrong on the subject. I am very sorry for my friends who are just figuring out that Obama is center left at best, not a progressive angel.<\/p>\n<p>Dodd, on the other hand, has it just right.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4o_3bphT3dg&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Greenwald says: It isn&#8217;t that difficult to keep the following two thoughts in one&#8217;s head at the same time &#8212; though it seems to be for many people: (1) What Barack Obama is doing on Issue X is wrong, indefensible and worthy of extreme criticism; (2) I support Barack Obama for President because he&#8217;s a better choice than John McCain. In this case &#8220;Issue X&#8221; equals FISA, and Obama is completely wrong on the subject. I am very sorry for my friends who are just figuring out that Obama is center left at best, not a progressive angel. Dodd, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=551\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-8T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}