{"id":170,"date":"2009-11-13T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/11\/13\/091113_liberalapology\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T04:34:21","slug":"091113_liberalapology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/11\/13\/091113_liberalapology\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Apologize to Bush? Inconceivable!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When’s the last time you heard a dyed-in-the-wool liberal compliment (much less apologize to) George W. Bush? Yeah, me neither. That’s why I’m linking to this remarkable post on Hillbuzz<\/a> (via Jessica’s Well<\/a>) the writers of which seem to have finally realized that Hope and Change aren’t exactly living up to the hype.<\/p>\n

I didn’t agree with all of W’s policies, but I never doubted for a second that he had the best interests of America in mind in every decision he made, and his ability to ignore attacks on his character while focusing on what was truly important is something that sets leaders apart from politicians.<\/p>\n

I hope you’ll read the above-linked post, and while you’re there, scroll down through some of the comments, as there’s additional wisdom to be found. Here’s one example:<\/p>\n

When we start looking at the human beings running for office and not the party in front of their names, we get as close to the Founding Fathers’ ideal of this country as possible. And we scare the hell out of the two parties trying to divide and conquer.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When’s the last time you heard a dyed-in-the-wool liberal compliment (much less apologize to) George W. Bush? Yeah, me neither. That’s why I’m linking to this remarkable post on Hillbuzz (via Jessica’s Well) the writers of which seem to have finally realized that Hope and Change aren’t exactly living up to the hype. I didn’t… Continue reading Liberals Apologize to Bush? Inconceivable!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}