{"id":3960,"date":"2008-11-04T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/obama-says-change-is-coming-to-america\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T05:50:00","slug":"obama-says-change-is-coming-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/obama-says-change-is-coming-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama says change is coming to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SRE0LTGqtEI\/AAAAAAAAJSM\/GpB9gMIRhGc\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SRE0LTGqtEI\/AAAAAAAAJSM\/GpB9gMIRhGc\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265046808084264002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> said his victory tonight makes him more hopeful than ever that change is coming.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIf there\u2019s anyone out there who still doubts that <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> is a place where anything is possible\u2026 tonight is your answer,\u201d Obama said in declaring victory. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change is coming to America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Obama had kind words for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McCain<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccain.com\/about\/governorpalin.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a>, calling his opponent \u201ca brave and selfless leader\u201d whose service means <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> is better off. He said he looks forward to working with both in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Obama said he will never forget that his victory belongs to the American people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cA government of the people, for the people, by the people has not perished from the earth. This is your victory,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Obama urged Americans to resist the temptation to \u201cfall back\u201d on the partisanship and pettiness that has divided them in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama said his victory tonight makes him more hopeful than ever that change is coming. \u201cIf there\u2019s anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where anything is possible\u2026 tonight is your answer,\u201d Obama said in declaring victory. \u201c\u2026 It\u2019s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we [&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-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}