{"id":5708,"date":"2011-08-28T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2011-08-28T00:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T07:04:02","slug":"obama-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/obama-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Stand Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Barack Obama wants to win reelection, he needs to stop being the great compromiser or the adult in the room.&#160; He needs to stand up for the American people.&#160; When Republicans scheme to blackmail&#160; America for the sake of millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals, Obama needs to resist.&#160; Just say no to tyranny!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"28Pew\" border=\"0\" alt=\"28Pew\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/28Pew.png\" width=\"552\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 37% plurality now contends that Obama should challenge the Republicans in Congress more often; 25% say Obama should go along with GOP leaders more frequently, while about the same percentage (26%) say he is handling the situation about right. In April, fewer (27%) said Obama should challenge GOP congressional leaders more often. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats, in particular, are now more likely to say Obama should challenge Republicans in Congress more often. Today, a majority of <strong>Democrats (57%) say Obama should challenge the GOP more frequently; in April, just 39% said this<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And there is little difference among Democrats on this question. <strong>Liberal Democrats and their conservative and moderate counterparts are about equally likely to want to see Obama stand up more to Republicans (60%, 55% respectively)<\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2011\/08\/27\/1010922\/-More-Americans-want-Obama-to-challenge-Republicans%E2%80%94including-Republicans\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Kos<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If Obama wants his party behind him, he needs to represent them.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Barack Obama wants to win reelection, he needs to stop being the great compromiser or the adult in the room.&#160; He needs to stand up for the American people.&#160; When Republicans scheme to blackmail&#160; America for the sake of millionaires, billionaires, and corporate criminals, Obama needs to resist.&#160; Just say no to tyranny! A <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/obama-stand-up\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}