{"id":2450,"date":"2008-03-10T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/snatching-stupidity-from-the-jaws-of-duhbya\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T18:02:02","slug":"snatching-stupidity-from-the-jaws-of-duhbya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/snatching-stupidity-from-the-jaws-of-duhbya\/","title":{"rendered":"Snatching Stupidity from the jaws of Duhbya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb Bush incoherently praises Odierno for \u2019snatching defeat.\u2019 <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Bush thanked Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, who until recently served as the No. 2 commander in Iraq, for his service in Iraq. In attempting to apply the phrase \u201csnatching defeat from the jaws of victory,\u201d Bush offered this <a href=\"http:\/\/video1.washingtontimes.com\/fishwrap\/2008\/03\/bush_quotable_possibly_of_the.html\">nonsensical praise<\/a> for Odierno: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I appreciate the fact that <strong>you really snatched defeat<\/strong> <strong>out of the jaws of those who were trying to defeat us in Iraq<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2008\/03\/03\/bush-incoherently-praises-odierno-for-snatching-defeat\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Bush incoherently praises Odierno for \u2019snatching defeat.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress \u00bb Bush incoherently praises Odierno for \u2019snatching defeat.\u2019 President Bush thanked Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno, who until recently served as the No. 2 commander in Iraq, for his service in Iraq. In attempting to apply the phrase \u201csnatching defeat from the jaws of victory,\u201d Bush offered this nonsensical praise for Odierno: I appreciate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/snatching-stupidity-from-the-jaws-of-duhbya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snatching Stupidity from the jaws of 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-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","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=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}