{"id":4323,"date":"2007-10-30T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/10\/30\/obama-desperate\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T00:05:36","slug":"obama-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/obama-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn a desperate attempt to find an issue that might excite Democratic primary voters enough to overlook his youth and inexperience, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2007\/10\/30\/obama_virtual\/\">Obama pledges Net Neutrality, Ewok Safety (The Register)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAsked whether he&#8217;d &#8220;re-instate Net Neutrality&#8221; as &#8220;the Law of the Land&#8221;, trailing Presidential Candidate Barack Obama told an audience in Cedar Rapids, Iowa pledged that yes, he would.<\/p>\n<p>He also said he&#8217;d protect Ewok villages everywhere, and hoped that Tony Soprano had survived the non-existent bloodbath at the conclusion of The Sopranos.<\/p>\n<p>(So we made the last two up &#8211; but they wouldn&#8217;t have been any more silly than what the Presidential Candidate really said.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andrew&#8217;s in fine form, underscoring the fundamental deception in the network neutrality debate: there&#8217;s never been a network neutrality law, so there&#8217;s no question of &#8220;restoring&#8221; it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a desperate attempt to find an issue that might excite Democratic primary voters enough to overlook his youth and inexperience, Obama pledges Net Neutrality, Ewok Safety (The Register) Asked whether he&#8217;d &#8220;re-instate Net Neutrality&#8221; as &#8220;the Law of the Land&#8221;, trailing Presidential Candidate Barack Obama told an audience in Cedar Rapids, Iowa pledged that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/obama-desperate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama Desperate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-17J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}