{"id":37548,"date":"2013-08-29T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37548"},"modified":"2013-08-29T10:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T17:04:47","slug":"in-commemoration-speech-president-obama-says-poverty-used-an-excuse-to-not-raise-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/29\/in-commemoration-speech-president-obama-says-poverty-used-an-excuse-to-not-raise-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"In Commemoration Speech, President Obama Says Poverty Is Used as an Excuse to Not Raise Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130829Uprising\/2013_08_29_obama_march.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130829Uprising\/2013_08_29_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/obama50.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>President Obama addressed a 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington yesterday, at an event entitled Let Freedom Ring. Although he had warned ahead of time that his speech would not be as good as Dr. King\u2019s speech in 1963, he channeled a fiery spirit not seen in recent times. <\/p>\n<p>Obama thundered, \u201cChange does not come from Washington, change comes to Washington,\u201d contradicting his election-campaign refrain of asking for people\u2019s votes to bring hope and change to the White House. He spent a large portion of the speech repeating his push for economic reform, reminding the audience that \u201cKing\u2019s dream remains elusive\u201d on the economic justice he sought. <\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019ll examine President Obama\u2019s speech at a time when progressives have become increasingly bitter about his tenure. Obama is decried for deporting more immigrants than any other President, overseeing the most draconian domestic surveillance program in world history, escalating drone wars in various countries, and now verging on a new war against Syria. Unsurprisingly there was not a single mention of any of those issues in his speech. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Rinku Sen is a leading figure in the racial justice movement and the the President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and the publisher of Colorlines.com. She has written several books including Stir It Up, and The Accidental American<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama addressed a 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington yesterday, at an event entitled Let Freedom Ring. Although he had warned ahead of time that his speech would not be as good as Dr. King\u2019s speech in 1963, he channeled a fiery spirit not seen in recent times. Obama thundered, \u201cChange does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37548","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=37548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37564,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37548\/revisions\/37564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}