{"id":12084,"date":"2009-12-17T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12084"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T19:32:53","slug":"glen-ford-obama%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cprogressives%e2%80%9d-do-a-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12084","title":{"rendered":"Glen Ford: Obama\u2019s \u201cProgressives\u201d Do a Name Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Glen Ford<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/BlackAgendaReport.com\">BlackAgendaReport.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The organization formerly known as \u201cProgressives for Obama\u201d has changed its name. After almost a year of President Obama\u2019s massive transfers of the people\u2019s wealth to Wall Street, his escalation of U.S. wars in South Asia, his shameless alliance with insurance and drug corporations, and his callous disregard for Depression-level Black unemployment, even the president\u2019s most loyal sycophants on the Left are running for cover. It\u2019s not a pretty sight.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/?q=content\/progressives-obama-change-name-omit-their-president\">Read\/Listen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glen Ford BlackAgendaReport.com The organization formerly known as \u201cProgressives for Obama\u201d has changed its name. After almost a year of President Obama\u2019s massive transfers of the people\u2019s wealth to Wall Street, his escalation of U.S. wars in South Asia, his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=12084\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-38U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12087,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12084\/revisions\/12087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}