{"id":4227,"date":"2016-06-10T02:25:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/10\/president-obama-officially-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president\/"},"modified":"2016-06-10T02:25:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T18:25:24","slug":"president-obama-officially-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/10\/president-obama-officially-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama officially endorses Hillary Clinton for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fstory%2fthumbnail%2f11213%2fsddefault\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/2aqplpeXodX1WebdOWn4sT-30fg=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fstory%2Fthumbnail%2F11213%2Fsddefault.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=President+Obama+officially+endorses+Hillary+Clinton+for+president&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F09%2Fobama-endorses-hillary-clinton%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F09%2Fobama-endorses-hillary-clinton%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In a video posted to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s YouTube page on Thursday afternoon, President Barack Obama officially endorsed Clinton for president.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The video was posted not long after Obama held a private meeting with Clinton&#8217;s Democratic primary opponent, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Obama&#8217;s endorsement is hardly a surprise given that Clinton served as Obama&#8217;s Secretary of State during his first term in office. That reconciliation came after a competitive, at many times bitter, primary fight for the Democratic nomination in 2008, a fight that Obama invokes in an attempt to bridge the gap between Clinton and Sanders supporters.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/09\/obama-endorses-hillary-clinton\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/barack-obama\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Barack Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/hillary-clinton\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/election-2016\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Election 2016<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/world\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">World<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/politics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Politics<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/uD6mxQ8o6UY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video posted to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s YouTube page on Thursday afternoon, President Barack Obama officially endorsed Clinton for president.\u00a0The video was posted not long after Obama held a private meeting with Clinton&#8217;s Democratic primary opponent, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/10\/president-obama-officially-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-president\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[965,835,1015,749,1112],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-barack-obama","tag-election-2016","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-politics","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}