{"id":4313,"date":"2006-11-06T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:20:29","slug":"politics_as_usu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Politics as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This about the new Democratic Party Super-Star, Barak Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today urged hundreds of blacks not to vote along racial lines next week in Maryland&#8217;s Senate race. Obama, the only black U.S. senator, came to the state to rally support for Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, who is white. Cardin&#8217;s Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, is the first black candidate ever elected statewide and has been courting black Democrats.&quot;&#8211;Associated Press, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/elections\/bal-obama1103,0,2199481.story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/elections\/bal-obama1103,0,2199481.story\">Nov. 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The nation&#8217;s only black senator, Barack Obama, D-Ill., asked voters at two black churches and at a Nashville rally to elect [Harold] Ford, a Democrat who is trying to become the first black senator from the South in more than 100 years. &#8216;I know that all of you are going to work the next couple of days to make sure it happens, because I&#8217;m feeling lonely in Washington,&#8217; Obama said at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. &#8216;I need my dear friend to join me.&#8217; &quot;&#8211;Associated Press, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/wires\/2006Nov06\/0,4670,TennesseeSenate,00.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/wires\/2006Nov06\/0,4670,TennesseeSenate,00.html\">Nov. 5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This about the new Democratic Party Super-Star, Barak Obama: &quot;Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois today urged hundreds of blacks not to vote along racial lines next week in Maryland&#8217;s Senate race. Obama, the only black U.S. senator, came to the state to rally support for Democratic Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, who is white. Cardin&#8217;s Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}