{"id":633,"date":"2010-11-04T01:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2010-11-04T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T19:23:05","slug":"a-smidgen-of-hope-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/a-smidgen-of-hope-in-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"A Smidgen of Hope in the West, and Another Good Defense of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, last night&#8217;s election seemed a triumph for the latest version of the Know Nothing Party, and in honor of the writer who mentioned that historical reference most eloquently, I should note that Tim Egan sums up the various campaigns (and Sarah Palin&#8217;s poison touch) in the West here:<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Not Quiet on the Western Front\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F11%2F03%2Fnot-quiet-on-the-western-front%2F#?secret=UW9uLLOLtu\" data-secret=\"UW9uLLOLtu\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI hope he&#8217;s right and the Dems hold on to both Colorado and Washington senate seats. A smidgen of hope.<br \/>\nTim Egan also confronts Obama&#8217;s critics quite smartly, and specifically, here:<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"How Obama Saved Capitalism and Lost the Midterms\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F11%2F02%2Fhow-obama-saved-capitalism-and-lost-the-midterms%2F#?secret=gRsWiGusfK\" data-secret=\"gRsWiGusfK\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI like how he tackles Jon Stewart&#8217;s whiny complaints. Stewart can make me laugh, but his &#8220;rally&#8221; might as well have been held for the Republicans, and for his trying to stick Obama with a &#8220;Timid&#8221; label, what&#8217;s so bold about the Stewart\/Colbert rally, which ultimately seems no more than a milquetoast lovefest for nothing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, last night&#8217;s election seemed a triumph for the latest version of the Know Nothing Party, and in honor of the writer who mentioned that historical reference most eloquently, I should note that Tim Egan sums up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/04\/a-smidgen-of-hope-in-the-west\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}