{"id":2817,"date":"2008-01-16T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2008-01-16T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:42:15","slug":"hillary%e2%80%99s-real-mlk-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"Hillary\u2019s Real MLK Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Barbara Ehrenreich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ehrenreich.blogs.com\/barbaras_blog\/2008\/01\/hillarys-real-m.html\"><strong>15 January 2008<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChange\u201d is this year\u2019s Democratic battle cry, but if you don\u2019t know how it happens, you\u2019re not likely to make it happen yourself. A case in point is Clinton\u2019s 1993 \u201chealth reform\u201d plan. She didn\u2019t do any \u201clistening tour\u201d for that, no televised town meetings with heart-rending grassroots testimonies. Instead, she gathered up a cadre of wonks for months of closed-door meetings, some so secretive that the participants themselves were barred from bringing in pencils or pens. According to David Corn of <em>The Nation<\/em>, when Clinton was told that 70 percent of Americans polled favored a single-payer system at the time, she responded sarcastically with, \u201cNow tell me something interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She could have gone about things differently, in a way that wouldn\u2019t have left 47 million Americans uninsured today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/ehrenreich.blogs.com\/barbaras_blog\/2008\/01\/hillarys-real-m.html\">Read the article<\/a>] <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton disdain for public opinion has changed; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/edcut?bid=7&#038;pid=270073\">it&#8217;s grown exponentially<\/a> to her career ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Ehrenreich 15 January 2008 \u201cChange\u201d is this year\u2019s Democratic battle cry, but if you don\u2019t know how it happens, you\u2019re not likely to make it happen yourself. A case in point is Clinton\u2019s 1993 \u201chealth reform\u201d plan. She didn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2817\">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-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Jr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","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=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}