{"id":10009,"date":"2009-09-09T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2009-09-09T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:36:27","slug":"analyzing-the-presidency-rightwing-assaults-and-progressive-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/09\/09\/analyzing-the-presidency-rightwing-assaults-and-progressive-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing the Presidency: Rightwing Assaults and Progressive Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-090909\/2009_09_09_fletcher.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-090909\/2009_09_09_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.reelectbarackobama.com\/images\/obama_hater.jpg\" alt=\"get a brain\" \/>Even though the benign content of President Obama&#8217;s Back-to-School speech yesterday defused much of the right-wing brouhaha leading up to it, the White House in general seems completely unprepared for the conservative onslaught. Whether it&#8217;s a controversy about Obama&#8217;s birthplace, made-up horror stories of death panels, or the communist background of Green Jobs czar Van Jones, the Administration seem to be constantly in damage control mode. The weekend resignation of Jones was characterized by one progressive commentator John Nichols, as a surrender of the Obama administration rather than a victory for the right wing. As Congress and the White House return from summer break this week to take up legislation, it remains to be seen what progress if any, will be made on issues like health care reform and the economy. President Obama is scheduled to give a major speech on health care tonight, which will be broadcast live on KPFK. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Bill Fletcher, Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and the co-author of \u201cSolidarity Divided.\u201d Fletcher is also the Executive Editor of the Black Commentator, and the co-founder of Progressives for Obama<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Bill Fletcher&#8217;s article about Obama here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finalcall.com\/artman\/publish\/Perspectives_1\/article_6347.shtml\">http:\/\/www.finalcall.com\/artman\/publish\/Perspectives_1\/article_6347.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Even though the benign content of President Obama&#8217;s Back-to-School speech yesterday defused much of the right-wing brouhaha leading up to it, the White House in general seems completely unprepared for the conservative onslaught. Whether it&#8217;s a controversy about Obama&#8217;s birthplace, made-up horror stories of death panels, or the communist background of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}