{"id":5527,"date":"2008-09-19T10:01:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5527"},"modified":"2008-09-19T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T10:01:21","slug":"time-to-get-an-economic-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5527","title":{"rendered":"time to get an economic message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mentor and former boss Bill Galston has a sharply worded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedemocraticstrategist.org\/strategist\/2008\/09\/post_13.php\">message <\/a>for Barack Obama: &#8220;You are in danger of squandering an election most of us thought was unlosable. The reason is simple: on the electorate\u2019s most important concern \u2013 the economy &#8212; you have no clear message, and John McCain has filled the void with his own.&#8221; Bill adds that Obama needs a tight diagnosis of the current fiasco plus a &#8220;focused, parsimonious list of remedies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think voters have plenty of reasons to oppose the Republican ticket in 2008. Therefore, it doesn&#8217;t matter much whether Americans know about McCain&#8217;s changes of position or Palin&#8217;s tanning bed (or McCain&#8217;s lobbyist advisers and Palin&#8217;s ethics investigation). Nor will the election be affected much by my favorite issues&#8211;service, civic engagement, and political reform. It all boils down to what people think Obama would do about the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mentor and former boss Bill Galston has a sharply worded message for Barack Obama: &#8220;You are in danger of squandering an election most of us thought was unlosable. The reason is simple: on the electorate\u2019s most important concern \u2013 the economy &#8212; you have no clear message, and John McCain has filled the void [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}