{"id":829,"date":"2008-02-17T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T12:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=829"},"modified":"2008-02-17T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T12:39:34","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which candidate for the US Presidency is &#8220;an irresponsible tax-and-spend liberal&#8221;, has &#8220;the most liberal voting record in 2007 of any senator&#8221;, is \u201cthe most left-wing candidate to run since George McGovern\u201d and has &#8220;the voting record of a hard-left socialist&#8221;?<br \/>\nAccording to certain excitable Republicans quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article3382313.ece\">this piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Times&#8221;, it&#8217;s Barack Obama. Sounds a bit McCarthyist to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which candidate for the US Presidency is &#8220;an irresponsible tax-and-spend liberal&#8221;, has &#8220;the most liberal voting record in 2007 of any senator&#8221;, is \u201cthe most left-wing candidate to run since George McGovern\u201d and has &#8220;the voting record of a hard-left socialist&#8221;? According to certain excitable Republicans quoted in this piece in today&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Times&#8221;, it&#8217;s [&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-829","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\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}