{"id":9,"date":"2008-09-17T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-09-17T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T20:19:00","slug":"plan-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/plan-for-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan for Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new 2 minute-long ad from Obama spells out what he wants to do once in office.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ONM7148cTyc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ONM7148cTyc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Personally I love it: it&#8217;s substantive, logical, and it highlights the effects to the working class. But I&#8217;m not sure if your average low-information voter is going to sit through 2 minutes of, well, just talking. Maybe I&#8217;m underestimating the average American, but there&#8217;s a reason why most political ads are 30 second long &#8220;hit-and-run&#8221; style messages, with exciting graphics and the reassuring bass growl of a narrator.<\/p>\n<p>This actually hits on the reason why I simultaneously respect Obama so much, and fear for the election: he&#8217;s not speaking down to people. He&#8217;s not telling them what to think, he&#8217;s not pushing smears, he&#8217;s not peddling to the lowest denominator. If America reacts to open, honest discussion of the issues, I&#8217;ll raise a glass to a people whose judgement survived 8 years of empty politics. But if they don&#8217;t, then they&#8217;ll have earned what they get in McCain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new 2 minute-long ad from Obama spells out what he wants to do once in office. Personally I love it: it&#8217;s substantive, logical, and it highlights the effects to the working class. But I&#8217;m not sure if your average low-information voter is going to sit through 2 minutes of, well, just talking. Maybe I&#8217;m&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/plan-for-change\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plan for Change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[20,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebcharrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}