{"id":4743,"date":"2012-10-15T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T02:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:06","slug":"katrina-vanden-heuvel-facing-the-alternative-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4743","title":{"rendered":"Katrina vanden Heuvel: Facing the Alternative to Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/\">The Nation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txg7tz2P8DM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After four years, many voters haven&#8217;t quite seen the &#8220;change&#8221; they were hoping for from an Obama presidency. But a Republican takeover of the oval office would mean the reversal of every policy battle progressives have won\u2014from the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell to the Affordable Care Act. Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel lays out why voting to keep Obama in office doesn&#8217;t mean compromising voter values, but rather preserving the opportunity to keep fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Nation After four years, many voters haven&#8217;t quite seen the &#8220;change&#8221; they were hoping for from an Obama presidency. But a Republican takeover of the oval office would mean the reversal of every policy battle progressives have won\u2014from the repeal of Don&#8217;t Ask Don&#8217;t Tell to the Affordable Care Act. Nation editor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[577,5,1148,1078,39,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4746,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}