{"id":219,"date":"2007-07-23T22:34:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T04:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/23\/youtube-presidential-candidates%e2%80%a6\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T22:34:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T04:34:55","slug":"youtube-presidential-candidates%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/23\/youtube-presidential-candidates%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube &amp; Presidential Candidates\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the general public being able to ask presidential candidates questions\u00c2\u00a0 seems like a great idea, the only problem is there were more questions sent in than answered. So who decided what questions were asked? If you ask me, I think they should have let the general public that &#8220;plays&#8221; on YouTube decide.\u00c2\u00a0 That way the questions that the majority of the population was concerned about would be asked, instead of random questions like, &#8220;When will African Americans be given reparations for slavery?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t see how that has anything to do with our present government, I might be able to see it as a reasonable question if we were living in a time when people that had actually been slaves were still living, but they aren&#8217;t!\u00c2\u00a0 And when a twenty-something &#8220;thug&#8221; is asking this question, it makes me wonder why?! You hear lots of rap music talking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Original post by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/onegative\/2007\/07\/23\/youtube-presidential-candidates\/\" title=\"\">Amanda<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of the general public being able to ask presidential candidates questions\u00c2\u00a0 seems like a great idea, the only problem is there were more questions sent in than answered. So who decided what questions were asked? If you ask &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/2007\/07\/23\/youtube-presidential-candidates%e2%80%a6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-array-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/autoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}