{"id":91490,"date":"2026-04-22T10:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/obama-we-dont-have-monarchs-or-kings-we-have-citizens\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:42:06","slug":"obama-we-dont-have-monarchs-or-kings-we-have-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/obama-we-dont-have-monarchs-or-kings-we-have-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: We Don&#8217;t Have Monarchs or Kings, We Have Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden sit down with TODAY&#8217;s Jenna Bush Hager to reflect on the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary.  &#8220;Remember what&#8217;s best in us,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The basic principle upon which this country was founded, which is we don&#8217;t have rulers, we don&#8217;t have kings, or monarchs, or aristocracies. We have citizens.&#8221;  &#8220;And if we hold true to that idea that we, the people, had been gifted this chance of self-government, if we pay attention to our responsibilities and our duties, and if we extend respect and thoughtfulness to our fellow citizens &#8211; even if we disagree with them &#8211; if we understand that part of this democratic project is to sort through our differences in peaceful, legal ways, then I&#8217;m confident that we&#8217;re going to have another 250-year run that&#8217;s going be just as good,&#8221; Obama said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/04\/21\/obama_we_dont_have_monarchs_or_kings_we_have_citizens.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden sit down with TODAY&#8217;s Jenna Bush Hager to reflect on the United States&#8217; 250th anniversary. &#8220;Remember what&#8217;s best in us,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The basic principle upon which this country was founded, which is we don&#8217;t have rulers, we don&#8217;t have kings, or monarchs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8735,322,8813,9687,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}