{"id":2490,"date":"2008-04-22T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2008-04-22T19:18:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:18:03","slug":"primary-fever-in-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/primary-fever-in-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Fever in NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstockjournal.com\/\">Fug singer, author and poet Ed Sanders<\/a> was singing an ode to Obama &#8212; <em>&#8220;like the oak tree of Lincoln in the forever of America, someone has come like a giant of promise&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstockjournal.com\/pdf\/songforobama.pdf\">[lyrics here in PDF]<\/a> But Sanders also read a long piece about the last days of Bobby Kennedy saying that was the last time he had had so much hope in a candidate for president. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstockjournal.com\/pdf\/RFK3.pdf\">Robert Kennedy Recites from Agamemnon&#8221; [PDF]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the second that I walked out of the Sanders and Anne Waldman reading\/performance, Dave Menconi posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/beat\/index.php?title=arcade_fire_finally&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">the ways to get tickets to the Obama rally<\/a> featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superchunk.com\/\">Superchunk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadefire.com\/\">Arcade Fire<\/a> in Carrboro (at 2 pm on Town Commons). Barak Obama may or may not appear there.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner did I get home then I found from a call that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/breaking_news\/story\/591247.html\">President Bill Clinton would be in Hillsborough at 1:45 p.m. Orange County Baseball Field.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Republican friend told me over lunch yesterday, <em>&#8220;I think I have tickets to the Democratic candidates debate if it happens. I&#8217;d like to see them duke it out. Then I&#8217;ll feel even better voting for McCain.&#8221;<\/em> No evidence of McCain coming to NC anytime soon though &#8212; and the debate? <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/21\/nc-debate-officially-cancelled\/\">It won&#8217;t happen as it turns out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Just got a Hillary RoboCall to tell me about the Bill Clinton appearance in Hillsborough tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Fug singer, author and poet Ed Sanders was singing an ode to Obama &#8212; &#8220;like the oak tree of Lincoln in the forever of America, someone has come like a giant of promise&#8221; [lyrics here in PDF] But Sanders also read a long piece about the last days of Bobby Kennedy saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}