{"id":870,"date":"2008-01-24T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=870"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:37:57","slug":"if-barack-obama-were-a-republican-would-he-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"If Barack Obama Were a Republican, Would He Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his trademark eloquence and depth, <a href=\"http:\/\/contratimes.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/in-breakdown-lane-seeing-redand-feeling.html\">Gnade once again taps into and confronts the zeitgeist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama as a Republican&#8211;now there&#8217;s an interesting thought. In fact, one wonders, really, how much different his views would be from a moderate Republican like, say, Colin Powell. I shook Colin Powell&#8217;s hand in 1994 and I thought, <em>Hopefully, I just shook the hand of the next President of the United States.<\/em> Sadly, I had not.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama were to somehow survive the gauntlet of the conservative elements of the party and become the Republican nominee, would evangelicals stay home on election day? And if they did, would he still be elected anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, an interesting conjecture, but it is what it is&#8211;first he must face the steely teeth of Team Clinton. Audacious Hope vs. Old Timey Cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>I wish him the best with that. I really do.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--5be7339eba86478d2122cfe333d2aa9a--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his trademark eloquence and depth, Gnade once again taps into and confronts the zeitgeist. Obama as a Republican&#8211;now there&#8217;s an interesting thought. In fact, one wonders, really, how much different his views would be from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-current-events","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}