{"id":4,"date":"2006-12-18T00:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T05:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:17:18","slug":"our-president-do-we-laugh-or-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Our President &#8212; Do we laugh or cry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I thought we would succeed quicker than we did, and I am disappointed by the pace of success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President George W. Bush, at a press conference with Tony Blair, in response to a question about whether he would acknowledge his failures and change course in Iraq (quoted in Time Magazine, December 18, 2006).<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of my father&#8217;s description of the news in Nazi Germany when he was an American\u00a0graduate student at the University of Berlin.\u00a0 So much of the &#8220;news&#8221; simply made no sense to an informed person.<\/p>\n<p>p.s.\u00a0 Our president speaks (again):\u00a0 &#8220;The legislature&#8217;s job is to write law.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the executive branch&#8217;s job to interpret law.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Austin, TX, November 22, 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I thought we would succeed quicker than we did, and I am disappointed by the pace of success.&#8221; President George W. Bush, at a press conference with Tony Blair, in response to a question about whether he would acknowledge his failures and change course in Iraq (quoted in Time Magazine, December 18, 2006). I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}