{"id":1068,"date":"2008-08-29T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2008-08-29T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T21:43:22","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (59)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current presidential race in the United States is the most exciting of my lifetime which is why, with still two months to go, I&#8217;ve already blogged on it almost 60 times. The last 24 hours have been particularly exciting.<br \/>\nFirst, the Democratic National Convention in Denver ended its fourth and last day with an inspirational address from Barack Obama that apparently was watched by some 38 million Americans.<br \/>\nThen, on the day he became 72,  Republican presumptive nominee John McCain stunned everyone by choosing as his running mate and the person who might be a heart beat away from the presidency Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.<br \/>\nOne has to assume that this is a calculated attempt to win disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters to the Republican cause in the actual ballot, but Palin opposes  a woman&#8217;s right to choose abortion and her foreign policy inexperience totally undermines the charges that McCain has made of Obama&#8217;s unreadiness for the White House.<br \/>\nSo now we know that, whatever happens in the actual election, history will be made with either the first black President or the first woman Vice-President.<br \/>\nYou can see, hear  and read Obama&#8217;s speech <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/page\/community\/post\/samgrahamfelsen\/gG5l5C\">here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current presidential race in the United States is the most exciting of my lifetime which is why, with still two months to go, I&#8217;ve already blogged on it almost 60 times. The last 24 hours have been particularly exciting. First, the Democratic National Convention in Denver ended its fourth and last day with an [&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-1068","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\/1068","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=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}