{"id":501,"date":"2009-02-17T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/17\/obama-watch\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:54:00","slug":"obama-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/17\/obama-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Security+swings+into+high+gear+presidential+stop\/1297395\/story.html\">shaping up<\/a> for Pres. Obama&#8217;s visit to Ottawa Thursday. NCPR will have two people on hand. David Sommerstein and Lucy Martin. David has press credentials&#8230;we don&#8217;t yet know what access he&#8217;ll have.  Lucy says she thinks she&#8217;ll be in the crowd on Parliament Hill. BTW &#8212; she could wave three flags if she chose: Canadian, American (because she&#8217;s a citizen), and Hawaiian (because she was born there, as was Obama).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/Business\/Harper+worried+about+being+upstaged+Obama+opposition+charges\/1236155\/story.html\">Opposition in Canada<\/a> think the Harper government is overmanaging the event&#8230;to keep &#8220;the glory that is Obama&#8221; to himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Martin attempted on Friday to introduce a motion in the House of Commons that would formally invite President Obama to speak to a joint session of both houses of parliament during his February 19 visit. <\/p>\n<p>Members from the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and Liberals on Friday gave consent to Mr. Martin to introduce the motion and bring it to a vote, but the Conservatives in the House refused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want the obvious, blatant juxtaposition of a neo-conservative leader in Canada and a progressive liberal leader in the United States,\u201d Mr. Martin said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Something else coming up &#8212; David was in Lowville last week, talking with local business people, and visiting the social services department. His three-part report starts tomorrow morning during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are shaping up for Pres. Obama&#8217;s visit to Ottawa Thursday. NCPR will have two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}