{"id":84,"date":"2008-12-17T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/playing-cornhole-with-vilsack.html"},"modified":"2008-12-17T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T13:08:53","slug":"playing-cornhole-with-vilsack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/playing-cornhole-with-vilsack.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing Cornhole with Vilsack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"450px-CORNHOLE.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/198\/import\/450px-CORNHOLE.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"240\" width=\"180\" \/><\/span>Let me agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2008\/12\/obama-disappoints-at-agricultu.html\">Rod<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=12&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=vilsack_to_be_named_sectretary\">Ezra<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2008\/12\/the_farm_exception.php\">Matt<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Vilsack\">Tom Vilsack<\/a> is a very disappointing pick by Obama for Secretary of Agriculture.&nbsp; As someone who lives in corn-producing state, I&#8217;ve seen my otherwise level-headed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_pawlenty\">governor<\/a> pander time and time again to Big Corn and push ethanol, even though economists and scientists agree that corn-based ethanol is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/r1552355771656v0\/\">bad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.cornell.edu\/stories\/July05\/ethanol.toocostly.ssl.html\">bad<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/1115\/p02s02-uspo.html\">bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been generally pleased with Obama&#8217;s choices thus far, but I was hoping that he wouldn&#8217;t pick an Ag Secretary who is in bed with big agribusiness and who will likely make few changes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Farm_bill\">Farm Bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me agree with Rod, Ezra, and Matt that Tom Vilsack is a very disappointing pick by Obama for Secretary of Agriculture.&nbsp; As someone who lives in corn-producing state, I&#8217;ve seen my otherwise level-headed governor pander time and time again to Big Corn and push ethanol, even though economists and scientists agree that corn-based ethanol&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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