{"id":1216,"date":"2004-04-29T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/george-waffle-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T08:58:31","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T15:58:31","slug":"george-waffle-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/george-waffle-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"George Waffle Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Frankly, I think if your position never changes, you&#8217;re probably dead. Still, it is amazing how the myth of a &#8221;resolute&#8221; Duhbya is so out of touch with the reality of Duhbya:<\/p>\n<p>* in the 2000 campaign, he opposed using the military for nation building<br \/>\n* in the 2000 campaign, he said the president should &#8221;jaw-bone&#8221; OPEC to lower prices<br \/>\n* in the 2000 campaign, he claimed to be &#8221;a uniter, not a divider&#8221;<br \/>\n* Bush opposed the Homeland Security Department<br \/>\n* Bush refused to let Rice testify before the 9-11 Commission<br \/>\n* Bush invaded Iraq because of 9-11, no, to destroy WMDs, no, to depose a tyrant, no, to liberate a grateful populace, no, to make democracy bloom in the Middle East, no, to find WMDs &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is just part one, off the top of my head. I honestly think one should not expect people to never change a view; I appreciate subtlety and nuance. However, it seems to matter to Bush that Kerry &#8221;flip-flops&#8221;. In that case, I say hoist Bush on his own petard, hang him by his own words, make him eat his own dog food.<\/p>\n<p>Please contribute other examples of Bush&#8217;s flip-flops. Thanks. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"Bush_evil_eye.jpg\" alt=\"Bush and the Flag again\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frankly, I think if your position never changes, you&#8217;re probably dead. Still, it is amazing how the myth of a &#8221;resolute&#8221; Duhbya is so out of touch with the reality of Duhbya: * in the 2000 campaign, he opposed using the military for nation building * in the 2000 campaign, he said the president should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/george-waffle-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Waffle 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-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","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=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}