{"id":27812,"date":"2013-01-24T03:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27812"},"modified":"2013-01-24T03:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T03:33:13","slug":"the-liberation-of-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27812","title":{"rendered":"The liberation of Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-jr-the-liberation-of-barack-obama\/2013\/01\/20\/d4ef7cb4-6336-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The liberation of Barack Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2013-01-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ej-dionne-jr\/2011\/02\/24\/ABhJNkM_page.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>E. J. Dionne Jr.<\/strong><\/a>, Opinion Writer<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Hussein Obama<\/a> can begin his second term liberated by the confidence that he is already a landmark figure in American history. His task is not to manufacture a legacy but to leave his successors a nation that is more tranquil because it finally resolved arguments that roiled it for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens in the next four years, Obama will forever be our first African American president, and our first biracial president. He has won two successive popular-vote majorities. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Jackson\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Jackson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_D._Roosevelt\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin Roosevelt<\/a>, both of them icons, are the only other Democrats who managed this.<\/p>\n<p>Obama fought for and signed a sweeping health-care law, an accomplishment matched only by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lyndon_B._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Lyndon Johnson\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medicare_%28United_States%29\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare<\/a>. He led the country out of the worst economic calamity since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression\" target=\"_blank\">Great Depression<\/a>. Restoring growth will count for more on the historical scales than petty arguments over what his stimulus program achieved. He ended one unpopular war and is preparing to close another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire opinion piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-jr-the-liberation-of-barack-obama\/2013\/01\/20\/d4ef7cb4-6336-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 128px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Jackson<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The liberation of Barack Obama The Washington Post 2013-01-20 E. J. Dionne Jr., Opinion Writer Barack Hussein Obama can begin his second term liberated by the confidence that he is already a landmark figure in American history. His task is not to manufacture a legacy but to leave his successors a nation that is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[13467,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-27812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-e-j-dionne-jr","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}