{"id":3703,"date":"2008-10-16T10:01:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2008-10-24T20:47:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T03:47:38","slug":"kpfk-fund-drive-day-11-the-real-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/10\/16\/kpfk-fund-drive-day-11-the-real-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real McCain \/ Slacker Uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_10_16_08\/2008_10_16_uprising.MP3\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=35% src=\"http:\/\/www.dvdverdict.com\/images\/covers\/realmccain.jpg\"\/>Last night&#8217;s final debate between the two major party candidates did not change the poll numbers despite being the most &#8220;spirited and combative&#8221; (NY Times) of all their encounters. Most viewers concluded that Barack Obama managed to keep his cool in the face of a belligerent John McCain. Early in the debate, McCain introduced a running theme of &#8220;Joe the Plumber&#8221; and how he believed Obama&#8217;s policies would hurt him. Joe the Plumber is Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber who met Obama in Ohio recently. Under Obama&#8217;s tax plan, small-business owners and individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, like Joe, could see an increase in taxes. A yearly salary of a quarter million dollars is no small amount but McCain pressed the point repeatedly using the term &#8220;Joe the plumber.&#8221; Moderated by Bob Schieffer of CBS news, the debate also focused on the current economic crisis, health care, negative campaigning, Vice Presidential candidates, Supreme court appointments and women&#8217;s reproductive rights. At one point during the debate, McCain lashed out saying that he was not George W Bush, and that if Obama wanted to run against Bush, he should have done so 4 years ago. <\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nGUEST: John Nichols is a writer for the Nation Magazine, is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, and the co-founder of Free Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s final debate between the two major party candidates did not change the poll numbers despite being the most &#8220;spirited and combative&#8221; (NY Times) of all their encounters. Most viewers concluded that Barack Obama managed to keep his cool in the face of a belligerent John McCain. Early in the debate, McCain introduced a [&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-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}