{"id":1294,"date":"2004-02-05T12:49:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2004-02-05T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T19:49:25","slug":"wont-be-fooled-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/05\/wont-be-fooled-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Won&#8217;t Be Fooled Again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"001848\"><\/a>John Kerry&#8217;s stump-speech applause line &#8220;BRING IT ON&#8221; is off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Bush line that he ought to incorporate for himself is &#8220;Fool me Once, Shame on&#8230; Shame on&#8230; you?  Fool me&#8230; Won&#8217;t Be Fooled Again.&#8221;  Imagine the crowd&#8217;s applause, laughing at that bizarre bit of Bush speechery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And laughing at the man in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>During the misery-inducing campaign through 2003, he awkwardly defended his &#8220;Yes&#8221; vote for the Iraqi War Resolution by saying that &#8220;Bush misled me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Neo<\/i>-neo conservative pundit Christopher Hitchens penned <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2084753\/\">this article<\/a>, with the line &#8220;Vote for me.  I&#8217;m easily fooled.&#8221;  Somewhere I have an essay from within the last month from someone saying &#8220;If I Could figure it out without having access to top-secret Intelligence briefings&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the deed is done, and we meander forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry&#8217;s stump-speech applause line &#8220;BRING IT ON&#8221; is off the mark. The Bush line that he ought to incorporate for himself is &#8220;Fool me Once, Shame on&#8230; Shame on&#8230; you? Fool me&#8230; Won&#8217;t Be Fooled Again.&#8221; Imagine the crowd&#8217;s applause, laughing at that bizarre bit of Bush speechery&#8230; &#8230;And laughing at the man in [&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-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","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=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}