{"id":4953,"date":"2010-03-30T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:46:26","slug":"obama-getting-more-confrontational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/30\/obama-getting-more-confrontational\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama getting more confrontational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/David-Plouffe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"David Plouffe\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>On the heels of victorys on healthcare reform, a nuclear-arms agreement with the Russians, and student loans, President Obama seems to be getting more <a title=\"willing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/30\/AR2010033002195.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">willing<\/a> to be confrontational with Congressional foes.\u00a0 Political science Professor <a title=\"Graham Wilson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/people\/faculty\/professorgrahamwilson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Graham Wilson<\/a>,\u00a0author of &#8220;<em>Only in America?<\/em> <em>American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; <\/em>says it appears the 2008 campaigning Obama is back.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Is this because key adviser David Plouffe [<\/em>above<em>] is back with him? The change in style seems to coincide with Plouffe\u2019s return. Certainly the days of Obama being a punching bag for the Republicans seem to be over.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Graham Wilson, 617-353-2540, <a href=\"mailto:gkwilson@bu.edu\">gkwilson@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of victorys on healthcare reform, a nuclear-arms agreement with the Russians, and student loans, President Obama seems to be getting more willing to be confrontational with Congressional foes.\u00a0 Political science Professor Graham Wilson,\u00a0author of &#8220;Only in America? American Politics in Comparative Perspective,&#8221; says it appears the 2008 campaigning Obama is back. &#8220;Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2574,2573,2572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}