{"id":244,"date":"2006-12-12T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=244"},"modified":"2006-12-12T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:36:39","slug":"run-obama-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Run, Obama, run!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an echo of the call to Forrest Gump, this was the appeal to Democratic Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/main.php\">Barack Obama<\/a>. Significantly the call was made by an enthusiast in New Hampshire and the request was to run for the Democratic candidacy for the US Presidential race in 2008. Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1969824,00.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<CENTER><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/OBAMA.jpg\"  BORDER=3><\/CENTER><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nNow I <a href=\"http:\/\/s170032534.websitehome.co.uk\/nighthawk-static\/permalink.php?id=489_0_1_255\">first blogged<\/a> about Obama two and a half years ago in April 2004 when he was just a candidate for an Illinois seat in the Senate. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2006\/10\/the_rise_and_rise_of_barack_ob.html\">most recent posting<\/a> on him was almost two months ago when the British press started to appreciate his potential as a Presidential contender.<br \/>\nJust watch this man run &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an echo of the call to Forrest Gump, this was the appeal to Democratic Senator Barack Obama. Significantly the call was made by an enthusiast in New Hampshire and the request was to run for the Democratic candidacy for the US Presidential race in 2008. Read more here. Now I first blogged about Obama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","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\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}