{"id":1158,"date":"2004-04-29T16:34:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2004-04-29T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T23:34:11","slug":"bush-deserves-a-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/04\/29\/bush-deserves-a-cookie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Deserves a Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002225\"><\/a>The headlines regarding this guy just baffle me sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/afp\/us_attacks_bush\">Bush says he answered every question from Sept 11 panel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah?  Does he get a cookie for doing this?<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; why he appeared with Cheney?<\/p>\n<p><i>Asked for the reasons behind his unprecedented insistence on Cheney&#8217;s presence, Bush replied: &#8220;I think it was important for them to see our body language as well, how we work together.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Body Language?<\/p>\n<p>The sad truth with Bush appears to be that the charicatures of the man are true.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe this is a tell.  He was hyper-aware of body language.  Cheney was there to make sure that his body language was correct.<\/p>\n<p>And this makes no sense to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/sns-commission,0,2830085.story?coll=ny-nationhomepage-headlines\">&#8220;There was some laughter from time to time. The president is a bit of a tease,&#8221; Thompson said. &#8220;There were no tense moments. I thought the president gave a five-star performance. I wish the American people could have seen it.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Performance<\/i>?  <i>Tease?<\/i>  Did he have any good jokes to share?  I guess he&#8217;s the veritable life of the party, ain&#8217;t he.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headlines regarding this guy just baffle me sometimes&#8230; Bush says he answered every question from Sept 11 panel. Yeah? Does he get a cookie for doing this? And&#8230; why he appeared with Cheney? Asked for the reasons behind his unprecedented insistence on Cheney&#8217;s presence, Bush replied: &#8220;I think it was important for them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}