{"id":1104,"date":"2007-01-16T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/obama-takes-first-step-to-08-run-further-crowding-race-before-richardson-announces-whether-hes-in\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:15:00","slug":"obama-takes-first-step-to-08-run-further-crowding-race-before-richardson-announces-whether-hes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/obama-takes-first-step-to-08-run-further-crowding-race-before-richardson-announces-whether-hes-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama takes first step to &#8217;08 run, further crowding race before Richardson announces whether he&#8217;s in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ra0Wj37tEDI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/RcUcX4n2C_c\/s1600-h\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ra0Wj37tEDI\/AAAAAAAAAXM\/RcUcX4n2C_c\/s200\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020693965153570866\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Illinois Sen. Barack Obama took the first step in a presidential bid today by filing papers creating an exploratory committee, further crowding the presidential field before New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has even announced whether he\u2019ll run.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI certainly didn\u2019t expect to find myself in this position a year ago,\u201d Obama said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/video\" target=\"_blank\">message<\/a> posted on his Web site. \u201c&#8230; I\u2019ve been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics, so I\u2019ve spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> was in <st1:state st=\"on\">South Carolina<\/st1:state> at a dinner honoring former Democratic governors of that state this weekend, and gave a speech during which he said he favors a withdrawal of American troops from <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">His speech is on YouTube in four parts. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ayQhsiHW0Mg\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view part 1, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yLWeX6DRsP8&#038;mode=related&amp;search=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view part 2, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xq1ubM3DPRw&#038;mode=related&amp;search=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view part 3 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zGt3ImnVTaM&#038;mode=related&amp;search=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to view part 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The race for the White House is very crowded. For a list of Democrats and Republicans who have formed presidential exploratory committees, and others who are considering running, click <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/2\/2008_CANDIDATES_GLANCE?SITE=NMALJ&#038;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Sen. Barack Obama took the first step in a presidential bid today by filing papers creating an exploratory committee, further crowding the presidential field before New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has even announced whether he\u2019ll run. \u201cI certainly didn\u2019t expect to find myself in this position a year ago,\u201d Obama said in a message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}