{"id":2351,"date":"2009-01-21T13:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2009-01-21T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T18:01:09","slug":"not-the-change-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/21\/not-the-change-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Change We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bowers <a href=\"http:\/\/openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=11034&amp;view=print\">on the fate of the 50 State Strategy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In short, the DNC will be moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of Howard Dean&#8217;s tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would have been surprised by any other result, but this is still disappointing to hear.\u00c2\u00a0 Just as businesses ultimately do themselves a disservice by focusing on quarterly results, so do political parties, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bowers on the fate of the 50 State Strategy: In short, the DNC will be moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of Howard Dean&#8217;s tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012. I would have been surprised by any other result, but this is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}