{"id":1134,"date":"2004-03-04T15:41:29","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/selling-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-03-04T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T22:41:29","slug":"selling-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/selling-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Relatives condemn Bush 9\/11 ads\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/3534533.stm\">Relatives condemn Bush 9\/11 ads<\/a> BBC NEWS<\/p>\n<p>The four television advertisements, which began showing on Thursday across the US, marked <b>the beginning of the Bush administration&#8217;s campaign<\/b> for the 2004 presidential elections. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I&#8217;m optimistic about America because I believe in the people of America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the images shown in two of the advertisements are images of firefighters carrying a body, draped in a US flag, from the rubble at Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[R]elatives said they felt their loved ones were being used to score political points. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;Families are enraged,&#8221; victims&#8217; advocate Bill Doyle, who lost his 25-year-old son in the attacks, told Reuters news agency. <\/p>\n<p><b>&#8221;What I think is distasteful is that the president is trying to use 9\/11 as a springboard for his re-election.&#8221;<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s entirely wrong. He&#8217;s had 3,500 deaths on his watch, including Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives condemn Bush 9\/11 ads BBC NEWS The four television advertisements, which began showing on Thursday across the US, marked the beginning of the Bush administration&#8217;s campaign for the 2004 presidential elections. &#8221;I&#8217;m optimistic about America because I believe in the people of America.&#8221; Among the images shown in two of the advertisements are images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/selling-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selling Bush<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}