{"id":1154,"date":"2008-10-20T11:47:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2008-10-20T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:47:51","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (82)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please watch this clip of Michele Bachmann, a member of the US Congress from Minnesota, being interviewed on &#8220;Hardball&#8221;, a leading American talk show:<\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8bT01mC9xSA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8bT01mC9xSA&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nThen read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/oct\/20\/commentanddebate-john-mccain-barack-obama\">this article<\/a> by Michael Tomasky, editor of &#8220;Guardian America&#8221;.<br \/>\nMcCarthy may be dead &#8211; but clearly McCarthyism is alive and kicking. When a black man is elected President of the United States in two weeks, I hope that McCarthy spins in his grave and that Bachmann has lost her seat in the Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please watch this clip of Michele Bachmann, a member of the US Congress from Minnesota, being interviewed on &#8220;Hardball&#8221;, a leading American talk show: Then read this article by Michael Tomasky, editor of &#8220;Guardian America&#8221;. McCarthy may be dead &#8211; but clearly McCarthyism is alive and kicking. When a black man is elected President of [&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-1154","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\/1154","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=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}