{"id":3193,"date":"2008-02-12T20:52:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2008-02-12T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T20:52:02","slug":"barrack_obama_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3193","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama in Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few photos from a late arriving visitor to the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s Kohl Center.<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobamazmetro22008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobamazmetro22008.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobama22008c.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobama22008c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobama22008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobama22008.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/span><br \/>While I did not arrive early enough to catch the speech inside the Kohl Center, I always find it interesting to note the political opportunism during these events.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doylelawton.com\/\">Governor Doyle<\/a>, Milwaukee Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.milwaukee.gov\/Mayor\">Tom Barrett<\/a> and local Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveformadison.com\/\">Dave Cieslewicz<\/a> all rated a nod from Obama.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000979.php\">John Kerry&#8217;s 2004 appearance with Bruce Springsteen<\/a> included a number of local politicians, including Elizabeth Burmaster, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent (<a href=\"http:\/\/dpi.state.wi.us\/sprntdnt\/biography.html\">a nonpartisan position<\/a>).<br \/>\nFinally, a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/\">Ron Paul<\/a> supporters promoted their candidate in front of the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few photos from a late arriving visitor to the University of Wisconsin&#8217;s Kohl Center.<\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"7\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobamazmetro22008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobamazmetro22008.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/form>\n<p><\/p>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"8\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobama22008c.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobama22008c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/form>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"9\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madisonobama22008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/madisonobama22008.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/form>\n<p>While I did not arrive early enough to catch the speech inside the Kohl Center, I always find it interesting to note the political opportunism during these events.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doylelawton.com\/\">Governor Doyle<\/a>, Milwaukee Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.milwaukee.gov\/Mayor\">Tom Barrett<\/a> and local Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveformadison.com\/\">Dave Cieslewicz<\/a> all rated a nod from Obama.   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000979.php\">John Kerry&#8217;s 2004 appearance with Bruce Springsteen<\/a> included a number of local politicians, including Elizabeth Burmaster, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent (<a href=\"http:\/\/dpi.state.wi.us\/sprntdnt\/biography.html\">a nonpartisan position<\/a>).<br \/>\nFinally, a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul2008.com\/\">Ron Paul<\/a> supporters promoted their candidate in front of the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,36,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}