{"id":563,"date":"2008-11-05T09:18:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:21:03","slug":"dont-let-obama-become-a-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/dont-let-obama-become-a-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let Obama become a &#8220;Kennedy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=536\">As expected<\/a> Barack Obama has broken historical trends in this election.  His victory was gained through hard work and campaign spending.  But it happened because of a yearning for change from a wide cross-section of America.  Not only has he finally broken the race barrier but he has made superlative gains in places that have not supported a Democrat.  He has appealed to rich and poor, black and white, Republican and Democrat because he offers hope that the US administration can rebuild itself at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that this impetus for change can be vested in more than one person and that an accident does not turn Obama in to a martyr.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Obama better take a big shovel to the White House in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7709978.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tObama wins historic US election \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7710038.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tFull text: Obama&#8217;s victory speech \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7709830.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tIn pictures: Election result reaction \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7709852.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tExit polls: Who backed Obama \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7707760.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tDemocrats score huge Congress win \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7708420.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tChallenges ahead<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7708420.stm\"><strong>  \t\t\t<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7704360.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tWhy Obama took the White House \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7708893.stm\"> \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tJohn Simpson: New world view \t\t\t \t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected Barack Obama has broken historical trends in this election. His victory was gained through hard work and campaign spending. But it happened because of a yearning for change from a wide cross-section of America. Not only has he finally broken the race barrier but he has made superlative gains in places that have &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/dont-let-obama-become-a-kennedy\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t let Obama become a &#8220;Kennedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-95","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}