{"id":187,"date":"2009-09-20T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/20\/obamas-partisan-political-courage\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T16:52:04","slug":"obamas-partisan-political-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/20\/obamas-partisan-political-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&rsquo;s Partisan Political Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They are only three decisions, all of which could be characterized as acts lacking courage.&#160; But Obama\u2019s recent decision to scrap a missile defense system located in Poland or the Czech Republic and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/20\/nyregion\/20paterson.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">now his decision to tell N.Y. Governor Paterson to not run<\/a> for re-election and to publicly back Sen. Bennett in Colorado who is facing a primary challenger are three acts that I think took courage.&#160; The first because it plays into the meme about Dems being weak on defense and the second because he\u2019s getting overtly political on the type of Democrat he wants.&#160; He is already backing Arlen Specter but you can argue that was designed to say thanks for switching parties.<\/p>\n<p>He may say he doesn\u2019t like partisan politics, but he plays it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are only three decisions, all of which could be characterized as acts lacking courage.&#160; But Obama\u2019s recent decision to scrap a missile defense system located in Poland or the Czech Republic and now his decision to tell N.Y. Governor Paterson to not run for re-election and to publicly back Sen. Bennett in Colorado who&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/09\/20\/obamas-partisan-political-courage\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}