{"id":1063,"date":"2008-08-27T20:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2008-08-27T20:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:40:34","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (57)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now caught up with Day Two of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The day&#8217;s highlight was, of course, the speech of Senator Hillary Clinton which was preceded by a video and attended by her husband and daughter.<br \/>\nIt was a powerful and eloquent address that gave as much support to Barack Obama as one could reasonably expect. I think that she was sincere, but she needs an incentive. If I was Barack Obama, I would promise that &#8211; if she and Bill are really seen to deliver for him in the general election &#8211; when he enters the White House she will be put in charge of health care reform to complete the task she started during her husband&#8217;s presidency.<br \/>\nMeanwhile you can see and hear her speech <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/community\/post\/bradleyportnoy\/gG5lhW\">here<\/a> and read it <a href=\"http:\/\/speeches.demconwatchblog.com\/2008\/08\/remarks-of-hillary-clinton.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now caught up with Day Two of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The day&#8217;s highlight was, of course, the speech of Senator Hillary Clinton which was preceded by a video and attended by her husband and daughter. It was a powerful and eloquent address that gave as much support to Barack Obama as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}