{"id":1830,"date":"2008-11-03T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:42:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T11:42:59","slug":"1824-of-the-keynote-address-of-the-2004-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"[1824] Of the keynote address of the 2004 DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those great speeches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]JmfZbUOlJPE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]9HiYSmiRX6U[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part has always been this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us: the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers, who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America \u2014 there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America \u2014 there&#8217;s the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I&#8217;ve got news for them, too: We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don&#8217;t like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States, and, yes, we&#8217;ve got some gay friends in the Red States. There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/2004_Democratic_National_Convention_keynote_address\" target=\"_blank\"><em>2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address<\/em><\/a>. Barack Obama. July 27 2004]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those great speeches. [youtube]JmfZbUOlJPE[\/youtube] [youtube]9HiYSmiRX6U[\/youtube] My favorite part has always been this: Now, even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us: the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers, who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and [&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],"tags":[409,136],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-barack-obama","tag-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}