{"id":5552,"date":"2011-09-20T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2011-09-20T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:03:14","slug":"obama-woos-base-limerick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/20\/obama-woos-base-limerick\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To The New, Improved Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This devout progressive has been very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/09\/03\/limerick-email-obama-campaign\/\">hard on Obama lately<\/a> &#8230; and with good reason.  But the debt ceiling debacle, liberal anger, and sinking poll numbers seem to have woken him up. Suddenly, Obama is the new, improved, assertive, populist President. And many former fans are welcoming back the President they thought they elected. <\/p>\n<p>So, am I cheering?  Well, let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;m giving Obama guarded applause. For while I like some of his jobs and tax proposals, and I love his newly confident, aggressive tone, I&#8217;m not convinced that any of this will last.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Limerick Ode To The New, Improved Obama<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>It fin&#8217;ly has dawned on Barack<br \/>\nThat with lib&#8217;rals he&#8217;s lost lots of stock.<br \/>\nHis base and foundation<br \/>\nCould be his salvation.<br \/>\nI just hope his new stance ain&#8217;t a crock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This devout progressive has been very hard on Obama lately &#8230; and with good reason. But the debt ceiling debacle, liberal anger, and sinking poll numbers seem to have woken him up. Suddenly, Obama is the new, improved, assertive, populist President. And many former fans are welcoming back the President they thought they elected. So, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185,95,852,114,11,154,6,1120,7,3,45,467,17],"tags":[2792,1517,476,1266,1142,1402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552"}],"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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5569,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}