{"id":1864,"date":"2010-04-14T07:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2010-04-14T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:05:38","slug":"center-left-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Center-left, perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/13\/AR2010041303686.html\">Norman Orenstein<\/a>, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/25\/david-frum-aei-heritage-and-health-care\/\">the place that separated itself from someone who dared suggest the Republicans blew it on HIR<\/a>, writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Looking at the range of Obama domestic and foreign policies, and his agency and diplomatic appointments, my conclusion is clear: <strong>This president is a mainstream, pragmatic moderate, operating in the center of American politics; center-left, perhaps, but not left of center.<\/strong> The most radical president in American history? Does Newt Gingrich, a PhD in history, really believe that [expletive]?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Center-left, <strong>perhaps<\/strong>?&quot; Let&#39;s see if they fire this guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Orenstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, yes, the place that separated itself from someone who dared suggest the Republicans blew it on HIR, writes: Looking at the range of Obama domestic and foreign policies, and his agency and diplomatic appointments, my conclusion is clear: This president is a mainstream, pragmatic moderate, operating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Center-left, perhaps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}