{"id":1307,"date":"2004-08-31T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-politician-who-cannot-be-trusted\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T17:31:42","slug":"a-politician-who-cannot-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-politician-who-cannot-be-trusted\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;a politician who cannot be trusted&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Every politician flip-flops | csmonitor.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/0827\/p09s02-cods.html\">Face it: Every politician flip-flops<\/a> By Daniel Schorr | csmonitor.com<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bush accuses Senator Kerry of flip-flopping when he voted against the funding bill for the war that he voted to authorize. Sure, but how about Bush&#8217;s nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, having campaigned against nation-building? Or praising the report of the 9\/11 commission, whose formation he opposed? Or negotiating with North Korea, which he promised not to do? [mjh: Or supporting the Department of Homeland Security after he opposed it.]<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it: Every politician at one time or another will have to change his announced position to meet a changed situation. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The answer to the flip-flop accusation: Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. <b>Show me a politician who has stuck to his position through thick and thin, and I will show you a politician who cannot be trusted to represent our interests in a changing world.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face it: Every politician flip-flops By Daniel Schorr | csmonitor.com Mr. Bush accuses Senator Kerry of flip-flopping when he voted against the funding bill for the war that he voted to authorize. Sure, but how about Bush&#8217;s nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq, having campaigned against nation-building? Or praising the report of the 9\/11 commission, whose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-politician-who-cannot-be-trusted\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;a politician who cannot be trusted&#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-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","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=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}