{"id":3086,"date":"2012-08-22T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/america-divided\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T07:16:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:16:26","slug":"america-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/america-divided\/","title":{"rendered":"America divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>African Americans<\/li>\n<li> Asian Americans &amp; Pacific Islanders<\/li>\n<li> Catholics<\/li>\n<li> Educators<\/li>\n<li> Environmentalists<\/li>\n<li> Jewish Americans<\/li>\n<li> Latinos<\/li>\n<li> LGBT Americans<\/li>\n<li> Native Americans<\/li>\n<li> Nurses<\/li>\n<li> Parents<\/li>\n<li> People of Faith<\/li>\n<li> People With Disabilities<\/li>\n<li> Rural Americans<\/li>\n<li> Seniors<\/li>\n<li> Small Business Owners<\/li>\n<li> Veterans &amp; Military Families<\/li>\n<li> Women<\/li>\n<li> Young Americans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/groups?source=primary-nav-see-more\">groups Obama<\/a> has targeted to re-elect him.\u00a0 Maybe this is just the list his campaign thinks can be reached on-line.\u00a0 There are other groups in play that don&#8217;t present so well on the internet such as government employee unions and government contractors.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s job is really pretty simple: Identify groups and pay them off.\u00a0 Authorize an entitlement, a benefit, a public expenditure for a group, expend the debt-financed federal money, move on to the next group.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have to sell an ideology, a basket of ideals that capture the imagination of their constituents &#8211; a much tougher proposition because it involves education, persuasion, historical context, ethics, morality &#8230; good grief, the list is endless.<\/p>\n<p>To contrast, Democrats just write checks out of the treasury to their voters.\u00a0 Democrat constituents must possess the skill to cash a check, and then get to a polling place from time to time to pull a democrat voting lever &#8212; a pretty short resume&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t look good for taxpayers.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not on Obama&#8217;s list.<\/p>\n<p>B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Americans Asian Americans &amp; Pacific Islanders Catholics Educators Environmentalists Jewish Americans Latinos LGBT Americans Native Americans Nurses Parents People of Faith People With Disabilities Rural Americans Seniors Small Business Owners Veterans &amp; Military Families Women Young Americans These are groups Obama has targeted to re-elect him.\u00a0 Maybe this is just the list his campaign [&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":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cult-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}