{"id":614,"date":"2011-10-07T04:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=614"},"modified":"2011-10-07T04:29:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:29:52","slug":"ingraham-suggests-cain-would-be-the-real-first-black-president-because-obama-has-white-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/ingraham-suggests-cain-would-be-the-real-first-black-president-because-obama-has-white-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham Suggests Cain Would Be The Real First Black President Because Obama Has White Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/media\/2011\/10\/06\/338107\/ingraham-suggests-cain-would-be-the-real-first-black-president-because-obama-has-white-relatives\/\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ingraham.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing radio host and Fox contributor Laura Ingraham makes a living from race-baiting when it comes to the president. Like many of her conservative cohorts, Ingraham often insists that much of Obama\u2019s success is solely derived from the fact that he is African-American. Yesterday on her radio show, Ingraham offered Obama\u2019s rise to the presidency as a perfect example of \u201cthe problem with affirmative action.\u201d This is \u201cwhat happens when individuals get pushed into positions, or elevated to positions for which they\u2019re not qualified,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople get pushed, pushed, pushed farther than their abilities can match the position, and then they just keep failing.\u201d All \u201cbecause we had such a yearning for history,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>That notion, however, spurred Ingraham to contemplate the GOP\u2019s African-American presidential candidate Herman Cain.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/media\/2011\/10\/06\/338107\/ingraham-suggests-cain-would-be-the-real-first-black-president-because-obama-has-white-relatives\/\">Ingraham Suggests Cain Would Be The Real First Black President Because Obama Has White Relatives | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Right-wing radio host and Fox contributor Laura Ingraham makes a living from race-baiting when it comes to the president. Like many of her conservative cohorts, Ingraham often insists that much of Obama\u2019s success is solely derived from the fact that he is African-American. Yesterday on her radio show, Ingraham offered Obama\u2019s rise to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[366,367,365,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}