{"id":6699,"date":"2008-11-26T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6699"},"modified":"2008-11-26T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:24:16","slug":"brad-at-uks-guardian-thanks-for-your-help-now-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6699","title":{"rendered":"Brad at UK’s Guardian: ‘Thanks For Your Help – Now Go Away’"},"content":{"rendered":"

My column this week at the UK’s Guardian<\/i><\/a> seems to have provoked some impassioned comments in return. <\/p>\n

Before the editors had at it, it was titled in full: “Democrats to the Blogosphere: Thanks for Everything, Now Go Away”.<\/p>\n

And, by way of value-added content here, these were the first two grafs of the piece before they were excised for length reasons on the published final product…<\/p>\n

The Bush administration and Republicans in Congress stored up plenty of good will over the last eight years…for a Democratic sweep on November 4th. But it wasn’t necessarily enough good will to lead Progressives to look the other way when Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership start snubbing those who brung ’em to the dance — and both of them are getting a good start at it right out of the box.<\/p>\n

Barrack Obama promised “change”, but didn’t necessarily explain “change from what”. Somehow, many of those who supported and voted for him got the notion that his calls for “change” meant change from the old politics of both<\/i> the failed Republican and<\/i> Democratic party leadership. I don’t know where they got that idea<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now go read the Guardian<\/i> column<\/a> which, largely, picks up after the above. Your comments there, and\/or here, always welcome, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My column this week at the UK’s Guardian seems to have provoked some impassioned comments in return. Before the editors had at it, it was titled in full: “Democrats to the Blogosphere: Thanks for Everything, Now Go Away”. And, by way of value-added content here, these were the first two grafs of the piece before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,89,299,198,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-democrats","category-us-house","category-us-senate","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6699"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}