{"id":1711,"date":"2008-07-02T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T01:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T11:43:08","slug":"1705-of-huh-mr-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"[1705] Of huh, Mr. Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a more active approach to faith-based social programs on Tuesday in a bid to bolster his support among evangelical and religious voters.<\/p>\n<p>Obama visited a community ministry in a conservative region of the election battleground state of Ohio to unveil a plan to reinvigorate faith-based community programs first pioneered by President George W. Bush. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/news\/news-usa-politics-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Obama Courts Evangelicals With Stress on Faith<\/em><\/a>. Reuters via New York Times. July 1 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A write-up at the BBC somehow provides a scarier picture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A council involving religious groups would help to set the national agenda, Senator Obama said in his speech. [<em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7484574.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Obama backs faith in public life<\/a><\/em>. James Coomarasamy. BBC. July 1 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is McCain taking similar stance or is it just Obama outflanking the Republican candidate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama promised a more active approach to faith-based social programs on Tuesday in a bid to bolster his support among evangelical and religious voters. Obama visited a community ministry in a conservative region of the election battleground state of Ohio to unveil a plan to reinvigorate faith-based community programs first pioneered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","category-society","tag-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}