{"id":8835,"date":"2006-10-22T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8835.html"},"modified":"2006-10-22T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T20:13:45","slug":"barack-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/barack-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack for president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-reaction.blogspot.com\/\">Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20061022\/ap_on_el_pr\/obama2008\">AP<\/a>, &#8220;Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Warner was widely seen as the anti-Hillary candidate, and it was assumed that Evan Bayh and John Edwards would be the likeliest to benefit from Warner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-reaction.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/warner-bows-out.html\">decision not to run<\/a>. That may still be true, but Obama must be seen as a credible candidate who would attract a good deal of media attention and popular support. He could very well be the future of the Democratic Party. That future could come sooner than we thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings According to the AP, &#8220;Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so&#8221;. Mark Warner was widely seen as the anti-Hillary candidate, and it was assumed that Evan Bayh and John Edwards would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}