{"id":2442,"date":"2008-02-29T15:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T21:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/clueless-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T21:30:31","slug":"clueless-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/clueless-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"Clueless Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strike>Two<\/strike> Three more examples of Duhbya&#8217;s fecklessness. He doesn&#8217;t know irony when it spews from his own mouth. peace, mjh<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>Bush Condemns Leaders Who \u2018Sit Down At The Table\u2019 And \u2018Have Pictures Taken\u2019 With \u2018Tyrants\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>In yesterday\u2019s news conference, President Bush sharply attacked Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s (D-IL) argument that the president \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0208\/8625.html\">should never fear to negotiate<\/a>\u201d with America\u2019s enemies. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2008\/02\/20080228-2.html\">told reporters<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It will send a discouraging message to those who wonder whether America will continue to work for the freedom of prisoners. It will give great status to those who have suppressed human rights and human dignity. [\u2026] <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sitting down at the table, having your picture taken with a tyrant such as Raul Castro, for example, lends the status of the office and the status of our country to him.<\/strong> He gains a lot from it by saying, look at me, I\u2019m now recognized by the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Bush forgot all the times that he sat down and had his picture taken with leaders of questionable human rights credentials:  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bushpicwole.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/mine\/2008\/02\/bushpicwole.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/29\/bush-tyrants\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Bush Condemns Leaders Who \u2018Sit Down At The Table\u2019 And \u2018Have Pictures Taken\u2019 With \u2018Tyrants\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bush urges Turks to end offensive in Iraq quickly &#8211; Yahoo! News  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Turks need to move, move quickly, achieve their objective and get out,&#8221; Bush told a White House news conference. &#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s military General Staff General Yasar Buyukanit was quoted by Turkish television as saying: &#8220;A short time is a relative concept, it could be one day or one year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080228\/pl_nm\/turkey_iraq_dc\">Bush urges Turks to end offensive in Iraq quickly &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>\u2018U.S. solutions should not be imposed on African leaders,\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Bush told Bob Geldof in a new Time interview. Geldof noted that if the President happened to apply this thought to Iraq, it \u201cwould have profound implications on the man\u2019s understanding of how the world functions.\u201d During the interview, Bush also insisted, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,1717934-1,00.html\">I think history will prove me right<\/a>,\u201d regarding his efforts to rid the world of \u201ctyranny.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/02\/28\/us-solutions-should-not-be-imposed-on-african-leaders\/\">Think Progress \u00bb \u2018U.S. solutions should not be imposed on African leaders,\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Three more examples of Duhbya&#8217;s fecklessness. He doesn&#8217;t know irony when it spews from his own mouth. peace, mjh Bush Condemns Leaders Who \u2018Sit Down At The Table\u2019 And \u2018Have Pictures Taken\u2019 With \u2018Tyrants\u2019 In yesterday\u2019s news conference, President Bush sharply attacked Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s (D-IL) argument that the president \u201cshould never fear to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/clueless-duhbya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clueless Duhbya<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442","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=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}