{"id":4644,"date":"2008-07-08T03:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2008-07-08T03:15:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T03:15:35","slug":"where-has-obamas-magic-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4644","title":{"rendered":"Where has Obama\u2019s Magic Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/empty_obama.jpeg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <i>The last couple of weeks my excitement about Obama&#8217;s candidacy has cooled considerably. BOB HERBERT (NY Times) has articulated well what is bothering people like me. I wonder whether the fund-raising machine will work without a message that is one of change rather than putting together a convenience coalition. Obama has stumbled before and come back. From the beginning the question of Obama&#8217;s candidacy was whether he would be a transformative president or not get anything done. The good news is that it is almost impossible to be worse than G. W. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Lurching With Abandon<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In one of the numbers from<\/p>\n<p>His brilliant, nationally televised victory speech in Des Moines sent a shiver of hope through much of the electorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks my excitement about Obama&#8217;s candidacy has cooled considerably. BOB HERBERT (NY Times) has articulated well what is bothering people like <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4644\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/empty_obama.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"127\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}