{"id":56,"date":"2011-01-25T12:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/25\/poised-passionate-articulate-and-left\/"},"modified":"2011-01-25T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T17:29:36","slug":"poised-passionate-articulate-and-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2011\/01\/25\/poised-passionate-articulate-and-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Poised, Passionate, Articulate and Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a time when Democratic leaders from Richmond to Washington and beyond are inarticulate, cowed and flustered, we have Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders. After seeing this performance, I may have to reassess my opinion of him. Until last night when I saw him on \u201cThe Last Word,\u201d I thought he too often sounds a little too angry.  He still looks angry, which would hurt him as a spokesman, but his passionate and clear speaking was a breath of fresh air. My daughter commented on his cogency while we we watched him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure who can match him.<\/p>\n

By the way, he plans to introduce a bill similar to Paul Ryan\u2019s \u201cRoadmap for America\u2019s Future\u201d<\/a> because he wants to have that debate.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of the \u201cRoadmap,\u201d listen to Rachel Maddow skewering Ryan and his coupon program to replace Medicare. It starts at about 4:00.<\/p>\n

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At a time when Democratic leaders from Richmond to Washington and beyond are inarticulate, cowed and flustered, we have Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders. After seeing this performance, I may have to reassess my opinion of him. Until last night when I saw him on \u201cThe Last Word,\u201d I thought he too often sounds a… 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":[31,3,23,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}