{"id":231,"date":"2008-07-08T17:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/08\/dear-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T17:22:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T21:22:06","slug":"dear-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/07\/08\/dear-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Obama denies that he’s moving rightward towards the middle<\/a>. Sorry, but I just don’t buy it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unlike Obama’s ardent primary campaign supporters, I never thought he was especially liberal.\u00a0 But Obama’s\u00a0 positions on FISA, abortion rights, gun control, faith-based initiatives, and the death penalty are even worse than I suspected. (So far, he’s pretty much where I thought he’d be re ending the war in Iraq — way too slow.)<\/p>\n

And now it’s time for a limerick:<\/p>\n

Dear Obama
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Obama, your flight to the right
\nIs making me feel quite uptight.
\nIt’s alarming how fast
\nYou’re forsaking the past
\nAnd converting to GOP-lite.<\/p>\n

(Don Davis weighs in on being “stuck in the middle with Obama.”<\/a>)[tags]Obama the Centrist,\u00a0FISA, Abortion Rights, Gun Control, Faith-Based Initiatives,\u00a0Death Penalty[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So Obama denies that he’s moving rightward towards the middle. Sorry, but I just don’t buy it.\u00a0 Unlike Obama’s ardent primary campaign supporters, I never thought he was especially liberal.\u00a0 But Obama’s\u00a0 positions on FISA, abortion rights, gun control, faith-based initiatives, and the death penalty are even worse than I suspected. (So far, he’s pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,72,21,6,7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}