{"id":982,"date":"2007-03-11T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=982"},"modified":"2007-03-11T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:09:49","slug":"mrs-obama-says-what-i-deeply-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=982","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Obama says what I deeply believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been my longstanding\u00c2\u00a0belief that a politician ought to be more interested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03102007\/news\/nationalnews\/real_deal_barack_take_big_n_y__pot_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm\">in standing for something than winning<\/a>. I know I know. There is that old saw that the first duty of a politician is to get elected. No doubt that was the rationionale of W&#8217;s pals when they told the good Christians of South Carolina just before the 2000 primary that John McCain had fathered a black child.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that how you win ought to be as important as winning and I think a lot of Americans agree with me. Otherwise Barry &#8220;I&#8217;m on steroids&#8221; Bonds would be a much bigger national sports hero than he is. I hope Barrak sticks to the straight talk that John McCain seems to have set aside to win over Dobson, Falwell, et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been my longstanding\u00c2\u00a0belief that a politician ought to be more interested in standing for something than winning. I know I know. There is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"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=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}