{"id":997,"date":"2004-08-27T02:36:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T09:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=997"},"modified":"2004-08-27T02:36:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-27T09:36:04","slug":"the-state-of-affairs-we-are-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/08\/27\/the-state-of-affairs-we-are-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Affairs: We are Doomed."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Sayseth Bush<\/a>: “They’ve seen me make decisions, they’ve seen me under trying times, they’ve seen me weep, they’ve seen me laugh, they’ve seen me hug,”<\/p>\n

Interesting.<\/p>\n

The internals of all the polls, the ones that show Bush with a 39% or thereabouts job approval rating as well as a slim within-the-margin of error lead over John Kerry, have Bush ahead in two categories, and two categories only.<\/p>\n

“Handling of War on Terror”, nebulous and fuzzy as that be. (Divorced from this is “Handling on Iraq”; the average Fox News viewer would be outraged at the pollsters separation of questions. Notice that Bush now says that he thinks the American public will vote him in, “even if they disagree with the war”, because of some, quote – in – quote “steady leadership” and the idea that “I’m not going to shift principles or shift positions”* )<\/p>\n

The second “issue” that Bush has a decided advantage over Bush is the matter of… “Likeability”, nebulous and fuzzy as that be.<\/p>\n

To work on this “strength” and gain a few important photo-ops, this is the reason that he is going to give his speech in the middle of the crowd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We’ve seen him weep. We’ve seen him laugh. We’ve seen him hug.<\/p>\n

Don’t you want to see him weep, laugh, and hug for four more years?<\/p>\n

* The incongruity index spikes up a bit, as The New York Times interview feature has him saying thiseth<\/a>, “I don’t think you give timelines to dictators.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sayseth Bush: “They’ve seen me make decisions, they’ve seen me under trying times, they’ve seen me weep, they’ve seen me laugh, they’ve seen me hug,” Interesting. The internals of all the polls, the ones that show Bush with a 39% or thereabouts job approval rating as well as a slim within-the-margin of error lead over […]<\/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-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}