{"id":1340,"date":"2004-09-23T15:43:39","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-flaming-disaster-of-a-president\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T15:43:39","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T22:43:39","slug":"a-flaming-disaster-of-a-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-flaming-disaster-of-a-president\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;a flaming disaster of a president&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DodgeGlobe.com:Chalt: Cement sack, yes, but with concrete ideas 09\/21\/04\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dodgeglobe.com\/stories\/092104\/opinions_092104023.shtml\">DodgeGlobe.com:Chalt: Cement sack, yes, but with concrete ideas <\/a> By Jonathan Chalt <\/p>\n<p>If [Kerry] can&#8217;t run a campaign, the argument goes, he would never have been able to run the White House.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds reasonable enough unless you consider the fact that <b>George W. Bush is a highly competent campaigner but <em>a flaming disaster of a president<\/em><\/b>. And it is exactly those things that make him so ruthlessly effective on the stump &#8211; centralized authority, party discipline, total disregard for the truth &#8211; that have created a hermetically sealed petri dish in which bad policies come to life and are carried out unchallenged. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[A] president who struggles to enact decent policies is surely <b>better than one who easily enacts awful policies<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DodgeGlobe.com:Chalt: Cement sack, yes, but with concrete ideas By Jonathan Chalt If [Kerry] can&#8217;t run a campaign, the argument goes, he would never have been able to run the White House. That sounds reasonable enough unless you consider the fact that George W. Bush is a highly competent campaigner but a flaming disaster of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-flaming-disaster-of-a-president\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;a flaming disaster of a president&#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-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","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=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}