{"id":3335,"date":"2008-11-04T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/this-is-a-historic-election-congratulations-president-obama\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T23:19:00","slug":"this-is-a-historic-election-congratulations-president-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/this-is-a-historic-election-congratulations-president-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This is a historic election&#8221; &#8211; Congratulations President Obama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As I prepared to write a post congratulating <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/election\/2008\/dashboard\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">president Barack Obama<\/a>, and Indiana, the state I live in, for its role, John McCain\u2019s concession speech came on TV. McCain spoke of his genuine admiration for Obama, and eloquently articulated the historic significance of this moment in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that McCain\u2019s supporters will join him in his offer of goodwill as he asked them to, and in his recognition that what matters is working together to create an environment in which the ideas that continue to separate so many in our nation can continue to be debated and discussed, as we work together to uphold our democracy and the freedoms that enable us to disagree so freely.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations America, and congratulations Indiana, for making history!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-2134671392500620660?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I prepared to write a post congratulating president Barack Obama, and Indiana, the state I live in, for its role, John McCain\u2019s concession speech came on TV. McCain spoke of his genuine admiration for Obama, and eloquently articulated the historic significance of this moment in our nation\u2019s history. I hope that McCain\u2019s supporters will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;This is a historic election&quot; - Congratulations President Obama!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As I prepared to write a post congratulating president Barack Obama, and Indiana, the state I live in, for its role, John McCain&#039;s concession speech came\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/this-is-a-historic-election-congratulations-president-obama.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;This is a historic election&quot; - Congratulations President Obama!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As I prepared to write a post congratulating president Barack Obama, and Indiana, the state I live in, for its role, John McCain&#039;s concession speech came\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/11\/this-is-a-historic-election-congratulations-president-obama.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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