{"id":842,"date":"2008-08-28T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T17:26:46","slug":"yet-another-blatant-power-grab-by-the-obamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Blatant Power Grab By the Obamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/rockymountainnews\/20080828\/pl_rockymountainnews\/stormyprimaryseasonleftbehindasclintonto\">the Rocky Mountain News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules and suspend the future conduct of the roll-call vote,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;All votes cast by the delegates will be counted. and I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention by acclamation as the nominee of the Democratic Party as the president of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The motion was met with a rousing ovation. It was quickly seconded and approved by the thousands of people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not wait for any &#8220;no&#8221; votes before slamming down the gavel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do I suspect that some PUMAs out there are going to make a big deal about that last event?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Rocky Mountain News: &#8220;I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules and suspend the future conduct of the roll-call vote,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;All votes cast by the delegates will be counted. and I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be selected by this convention by acclamation as the nominee of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[22,6,4,43],"tags":[579,658,441],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","category-the-clintons","tag-democratic-national-convention","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-puma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-dA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}