{"id":1539,"date":"2005-02-25T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/viable-political-opposition\/"},"modified":"2005-02-25T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-26T04:01:17","slug":"viable-political-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/viable-political-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"viable political opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"President Bush Ends European Trip with Meeting With Russian President Vladimir Putin -- February 24, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/europe\/jan-june05\/ground_2-24.html\">Online NewsHour: President Bush Ends European Trip with Meeting With Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8212; February 24, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush: &#8220;[D]emocracies have certain things in common; they have a rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and <b>a viable political opposition<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Consortiumnews.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2005\/022605.html\">Consortiumnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bush also portrayed himself as a good example of a political leader who can\u2019t get away with hiding his mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live in a transparent country,\u201d Bush said. \u201cI live in a country where <b>decisions made by government are wide open<\/b> [!!!] and people are able to call people [like] me to account, which many out here do on a regular basis. \u2026 I&#8217;m perfectly comfortable in telling you, our country is one that safeguards human rights and human dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One Russian questioner challenged Bush on the issue of press freedom, apparently referring to pressure that Bush\u2019s conservative supporters have brought to bear on U.S. news organizations to oust journalists who have criticized Bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you talk a lot about violation of rights of journalists in the United States, about the fact that some journalists have been fired?\u201d the questioner asked.<\/p>\n<p>Bush responded with a joke, which played to the U.S. journalists in the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo any of you all still have your jobs?\u201d Bush joshed&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online NewsHour: President Bush Ends European Trip with Meeting With Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8212; February 24, 2005 Bush: &#8220;[D]emocracies have certain things in common; they have a rule of law, and protection of minorities, a free press, and a viable political opposition.&#8221; Consortiumnews.com Bush also portrayed himself as a good example of a political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/viable-political-opposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">viable political opposition<\/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-1539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","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=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}