{"id":1770,"date":"2008-05-14T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2008-05-14T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T22:26:00","slug":"two-americas-one-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"Two Americas. One Endorsement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a difference <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/05\/its_official_john_and_elizabet.php\">nine days<\/a> can make, eh?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>It&#8217;s Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez Race<\/strong><br \/>By <\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Greg Sargent<\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> &#8211; May 5, 2008, 6:20PM<\/p>\n<p>John and Elizabeth Edwards have finally made their endorsement plans &#8212; or lack of them &#8212; official.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of potentially decisive voting in Indiana and North Carolina, with political tensions at white-hot levels, John and Elizabeth revealed all in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20197952,00.html\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">an interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> with People magazine, of all outlets.<\/p>\n<p>The news in the interview is that they confirmed they will not endorse either candidate in the presidential race, because they are &#8220;saving their political capital for their own causes &#8212; his, fighting poverty; hers, fighting for universal health care,&#8221; reports, um, People mag.<br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africa.reuters.com\/world\/news\/usnN13447948.html\">Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 14 (Reuters) &#8211; Former U.S. presidential candidate <strong>John Edwards will endorse fellow Democrat Barack Obama<\/strong> on Wednesday, a campaign spokeswoman said, giving a big boost to the Illinois senator in his effort to rally the party around his bid for the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Smart timing. Should make people forget <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hUPSXLSf9BMjfyPSCc2sdK8RtV8QD90L6M8O0\">West Virginia<\/a> pretty quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a difference nine days can make, eh? It&#8217;s Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez RaceBy Greg Sargent &#8211; May 5, 2008, 6:20PM John and Elizabeth Edwards have finally made their endorsement plans &#8212; or lack of them &#8212; official. On the eve of potentially decisive voting in Indiana and North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}