{"id":1175,"date":"2004-04-15T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T21:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2004-04-15T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T21:10:36","slug":"self-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/04\/15\/self-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"002164\"><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paknews.com\/specialNews.php?id=2637&amp;date1=2004-04-14\">the Bush Press Conference<\/a> (which Rush Limbaugh described as a &#8220;home run&#8221;&#8230; where that bar was set, I do not know.):<\/p>\n<p><i>Q Mr. President, why are you and the Vice President insisting on appearing together before the 9\/11 Commission? And, Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to on June 30th? <\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: We will find that out soon. That&#8217;s what Mr. Brahimi is doing; he&#8217;s figuring out the nature of the entity we&#8217;ll be handing sovereignty over. And, secondly, because the 9\/11 Commission wants to ask us questions, that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re meeting. And I look forward to meeting with them and answering their questions. <\/p>\n<p>Q I was asking why you&#8217;re appearing together, rather than separately, which was their request. <\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: Because it&#8217;s a good chance for both of us to answer questions that the 9\/11 Commission is looking forward to asking us, and I&#8217;m looking forward to answering them. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see &#8212; <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Tom Tomorrow had this comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/mtarchives\/week_2004_03_28.html#001430\">how this stuff just writes itself.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sooo, my question&#8230; What did the President know, when did he know it, and does he know anything &#8212; anything at all &#8211; now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Bush Press Conference (which Rush Limbaugh described as a &#8220;home run&#8221;&#8230; where that bar was set, I do not know.): Q Mr. President, why are you and the Vice President insisting on appearing together before the 9\/11 Commission? And, Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to on June [&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-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}