{"id":958,"date":"2008-06-04T18:21:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=958"},"modified":"2008-06-04T18:21:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T17:21:24","slug":"the-american-presidential-election-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"The American presidential election (40)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken five months hard campaigning and voting in all 50 states &#8211; not to mention 40 postings on this blog &#8211; but finally the longest and closest and most expensive primary campaign in US history has resulted in the adoption of the first ever African-American as the candidate of a major party.<br \/>\nIt is an outstanding achievement by Barack Obama that very few thought possible when he first announced his intention to run for the White House. But Hillary Clinton has been a formidable and tenacious opponent and, by running so hard and so long, she&#8217;s done damage to Obama&#8217;s chances in the general election as he has limped rather than stormed across the finishing post.<br \/>\nWhat now? Well, Michael Tomasky has suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/jun\/04\/barackobama.uselections2008\">five things that Obama needs to do<\/a>. I agree with Tomasky that one of these is to get the Clintons on board but that Hillary will not be the Obama&#8217;s running mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s taken five months hard campaigning and voting in all 50 states &#8211; not to mention 40 postings on this blog &#8211; but finally the longest and closest and most expensive primary campaign in US history has resulted in the adoption of the first ever African-American as the candidate of a major party. It is [&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-958","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\/958","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=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}