{"id":34,"date":"2008-01-17T00:20:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/obama-on-reagan\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T00:20:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T08:20:34","slug":"obama-on-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/obama-on-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith&#8217;s blog (link courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">Matt Drudge<\/a> of all places) has a clip of Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0108\/Transformation_like_Reagan.html\">talking thoughtfully<\/a> about Ronald Reagan. I find the ability to look across the aisle and see the good in the other side tremendously appealing although I&#8217;m not so confident that the democratic rank and file will see it the same way. (Obama previously mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2007\/12\/obama-says-hed.html\">Republicans he&#8217;d consider<\/a> in a hypothetical cabinet and it didn&#8217;t take long for the Edwards campaign to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.johnedwards.com\/story\/2007\/12\/20\/204134\/69?commentmode=flat_unthread\">slam him for it<\/a>. )<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I&#8217;m discussing politics with someone I always ask them if they had to have a president from &#8220;the other party&#8221; (whichever party that is) who would they pick? To me the answer to this question says a lot about whether you can listen to what the other side is saying or are blindly partisan.<\/p>\n<p>My answer to that question by the way is John McCain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> As suspected, the rivals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D8U8I9PO0&amp;show_article=1\">pounce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith&#8217;s blog (link courtesy Matt Drudge of all places) has a clip of Obama talking thoughtfully about Ronald Reagan. I find the ability to look across the aisle and see the good in the other side tremendously appealing although&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}