{"id":946,"date":"2004-11-07T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/11\/the_great_black_hope\/"},"modified":"2004-11-07T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T20:01:13","slug":"the_great_black_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/11\/the_great_black_hope.html","title":{"rendered":"THE GREAT BLACK HOPE?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did he really say it? Yes he did: “This is no longer George Bush’s war. This is America’s
\nwar.” — Barack
\nObama<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>, speaking this morning about the war in Iraq<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> on ABC’s “This Week With George
\nStephanopolous.”<\/P>
\n

Too bad what Obama said is true to the extent that a heaping majority of the electorate — 59
\nmillion Americans — voted for the Boy King. It’s also disgusting, especially when the great black
\nhope says it with a tone of approval in his voice.<\/P>
\n

On the same program Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne Jr.<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> cited a poll,
\nwhich he didn’t identify, indicating that Americans actually “voted 3-to-1 against the war.” Huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did he really say it? Yes he did: “This is no longer George Bush’s war. This is America’s war.” — Barack Obama, speaking this morning about the war in Iraq on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopolous.” Too bad what Obama said is true to the extent that a heaping majority of the electorate — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-fg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}