{"id":6802,"date":"2009-01-09T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2009-01-09T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T22:47:28","slug":"video-what-a-president-should-sound-like-obama-on-criticism-of-his-stimulus-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; What a President Should Sound Like: Obama on Criticism of his Economic Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama said today that there is &#8220;no pride of authorship&#8221; on his economic stimulus package. For good or bad, in regard to that particular initiative, this seems to me what a President should sound like. Let&#8217;s hope he means it, and that this <i>m.o.<\/i> extends to <i>all<\/i> aspects of his Presidency. (<i>appx 3 mins<\/i>)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o-md3pSBmw8&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o-md3pSBmw8&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"275\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve recently been consulted by Obama&#8217;s team overseeing transition review of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), and have offered what I believe to be some good ideas about serious reform for the so-far dreadfully-failed commission, I&#8217;ll hope he means what he says in the above about accepting such ideas and putting them into practice. We shall see, but the words said above sound very good to my ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama said today that there is &#8220;no pride of authorship&#8221; on his economic stimulus package. For good or bad, in regard to that particular initiative, this seems to me what a President should sound like. Let&#8217;s hope he means it, and that this m.o. extends to all aspects of his Presidency. (appx 3 [&hellip;]<\/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":[239,159,390,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-eac","category-economy","category-election-reform","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802","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=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}