{"id":826,"date":"2006-10-23T07:24:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=826"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:33:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:33:58","slug":"obama-in-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Obama in 08?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Vic, a long time give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-to-George-Bush kind of guy, sends me an email saying that a Democrat looked impressive on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\/\">Meet the Press<\/a> I feel obligated to watch. I was at Church Sunday morning so I haven&#8217;t seen it yet.<\/p>\n<p>Obama has been touted as a new voice for Democrats since his election\u00c2\u00a0to the Senate two years back. He&#8217;s untested and his election in two years would give Democrats potential control of the Congress and the White House. If they tacked to the Center they might make a success of things &#8211; if the larger world economy doesn&#8217;t start wobbling.<\/p>\n<p>A mixed race President and an articulate one to boot!!! Its a very appealing idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Vic, a long time give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-to-George-Bush kind of guy, sends me an email saying that a Democrat looked impressive on Meet the Press I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prez-politics-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}