{"id":376325,"date":"2010-03-01T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69893"},"modified":"2010-03-01T16:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:15:18","slug":"obama-supports-lincoln-in-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/376325","title":{"rendered":"Obama Supports Lincoln in Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_45947\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 285px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45947\" title=\"BlancheLincoln_Presser_Wikipedia-275pxw\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2009\/10\/BlancheLincoln_Presser_Wikipedia-275pxw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) at at presser with Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (photo: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/03\/white-house-backs-lincoln-in-arkansas-primary.php\">Not a surprise, really<\/a> that Obama is supporting Blanche Lincoln in her primary race against Bill Halter.\u00a0 She is after all the incumbent:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed today that Obama will keep with his trend of supporting the sitting senator in party primaries, as he&#8217;s done with Sen. Arlen Specter over Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania and in supporting Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support Senator Lincoln as an incumbent senator,&#8221; Gibbs told reporters today during his daily briefing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my question, though. \u00a0 Blanche is blasting Halter for having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arktimes.com\/blogs\/arkansasblog\/2010\/03\/lincoln_live.aspx\">out-of-state support<\/a> in his bid to unseat her.<\/p>\n<p>Is she going to forgo support from outside the state?\u00a0 Do Barack Obama and the DSCC hail from Arkansas too?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cid=N00008092&amp;cycle=2010&amp;type=I&amp;newMem=N&amp;recs=100\">How about her donors<\/a> at Blue Cross\/Blue Shield, Monsanto, Pfizer, Koch Industries &#8212; or the lobbyists at Patton Boggs, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti, and Akin Gump?<\/p>\n<p>I guess the lesson learned is that in Blanche&#8217;s world, &#8220;out of state&#8221; + powerful = good, &#8220;out of state&#8221; + grassroots = bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/billhalter\">Donate to Halter\u2019s campaign here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/2010-primary\/\" rel=\"tag\">2010 primary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/arkansas\/\" rel=\"tag\">Arkansas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/bill-halter\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bill Halter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/blanche-lincoln\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blanche Lincoln<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69893&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69893\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) at at presser with Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (photo: Wikipedia) Not a surprise, really that Obama is supporting Blanche Lincoln in her primary race against Bill Halter.\u00a0 She is after all the incumbent: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed today that Obama will keep with his trend of supporting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}