{"id":1229,"date":"2004-05-27T13:55:07","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/daily-desperate-improvisation\/"},"modified":"2004-05-27T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T20:55:07","slug":"daily-desperate-improvisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/daily-desperate-improvisation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;daily, desperate improvisation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Five Points of Reality That Bush Overlooked (washingtonpost.com)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55958-2004May25.html\">Five Points of Reality That Bush Overlooked (washingtonpost.com)<\/a>By Jim Hoagland<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. President:<\/p>\n<p>I write as someone who has supported regime change in Iraq far longer than you or your aides. I have given your policies the benefit of the doubt&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>[Your recent speech shows] a willingness to <b>see the world as you would like it to be<\/b> rather than as it is, and a readiness to hope that the gap goes unnoticed or unexamined. With all respect, sir, <b>that is not leadership<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This steadily wavering image is at the core of the decline in your approval ratings. Americans stop supporting wars not because of body counts alone but because <b>they become convinced their leaders do not know what they are doing. They then stop supporting the leaders<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Most important, move away from <b>the obsession with secrecy that is a cancer<\/b> at the center of your administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Points of Reality That Bush Overlooked (washingtonpost.com)By Jim Hoagland Dear Mr. President: I write as someone who has supported regime change in Iraq far longer than you or your aides. I have given your policies the benefit of the doubt&#8230;. [Your recent speech shows] a willingness to see the world as you would like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/daily-desperate-improvisation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;daily, desperate improvisation&#8217;<\/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-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","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=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}