{"id":648,"date":"2008-05-01T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/05\/01\/obama-a-new-kind-of-politician\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:23:47","slug":"obama-a-new-kind-of-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/obama-a-new-kind-of-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: A New Kind of Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/best_of_the_web_today.html\">Best of the Web Today<\/a> (WSJ):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The real proof that Wright is right about Obama, though, comes from this passage in a New York Times story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/30\/us\/politics\/30obama.html?pagewanted=all\">April 30, 2007<\/a>&#8211;a year ago yesterday:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in Mr. Obama&#8217;s audition for the ultimate establishment job. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,&#8221; Mr. Wright said with a shrug. &#8220;I said it to Barack personally, and he said yeah, that might have to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Assuming Wright&#8217;s account of the conversation was accurate&#8211;and as far as we know, Obama has never disputed it&#8211;Obama not only is acting out of political expediency now, but was making plans a year ago to do so. All part of the effort to sell him as a new kind of politician&#8211;and if you buy it, we&#8217;ve got some change you can believe in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Devastating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Best of the Web Today (WSJ): The real proof that Wright is right about Obama, though, comes from this passage in a New York Times story from April 30, 2007&#8211;a year ago yesterday: Mr. Wright, who has long prided himself on criticizing the establishment, said he knew that he may not play well in\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/obama-a-new-kind-of-politician\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-i-dont-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}