{"id":3596,"date":"2008-08-19T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/obama-gives-interview-to-las-cruces-sun-news\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T18:33:00","slug":"obama-gives-interview-to-las-cruces-sun-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/obama-gives-interview-to-las-cruces-sun-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama gives interview to Las Cruces Sun-News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SKsSQkkjpUI\/AAAAAAAAGg0\/ZtqTi0ntiS8\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SKsSQkkjpUI\/AAAAAAAAGg0\/ZtqTi0ntiS8\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236299067652547906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Las Cruces Sun-News got a chance on Monday to conduct a phone interview with Democratic presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> and used the opportunity to talk primarily about immigration and the state\u2019s defense-related government facilities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The question the Sun-News didn\u2019t get answered because an Obama handler cut off the interview was whether the candidate will return to the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> area before the election. The interview came during Obama\u2019s Monday trip to <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can listen to the full interview with reporter Diana Alba by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/extras.lcsun-news.com\/obamatalks.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and read her article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_10241460\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Las Cruces Sun-News got a chance on Monday to conduct a phone interview with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and used the opportunity to talk primarily about immigration and the state\u2019s defense-related government facilities. The question the Sun-News didn\u2019t get answered because an Obama handler cut off the interview was whether the candidate will [&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-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","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=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}