{"id":494,"date":"2004-11-19T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T17:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/dimdahl-a-cantankerous-old-man-with-no-credibility\/"},"modified":"2004-11-19T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T17:42:24","slug":"dimdahl-a-cantankerous-old-man-with-no-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/dimdahl-a-cantankerous-old-man-with-no-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimdahl: &#8216;a cantankerous old man with no credibility&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Dendahl's Ramblings Badly Written, Poorly Researched\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/guest_columns\/260195opinion11-19-04.htm\">ABQjournal: Dendahl&#8217;s Ramblings Badly Written, Poorly Researched<\/a><br \/>\nBy Angela Wandinger-Ness, Biology Professor<\/p>\n<p>There are many things to take issue with in John Dendahl&#8217;s commentary, &#8220;Bush is the Man with a Mandate.&#8221; I will comment on only two points: poor writing skills and unjustified accusation.<\/p>\n<p>    There should be accountability and a factual basis that underlies a credible opinion. An opinion should provide well-written, carefully crafted arguments with a take-home message? not just random musings and unfounded diatribe, particularly when it is presented to the public by a syndicated columnist who uses his credentials as a retired executive and political leader to give weight to his ramblings. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Based on these examples, I submit that Dendahl&#8217;s column is nothing more than the ramblings of a cantankerous old man with no credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Dendahl&#8217;s Ramblings Badly Written, Poorly Researched By Angela Wandinger-Ness, Biology Professor There are many things to take issue with in John Dendahl&#8217;s commentary, &#8220;Bush is the Man with a Mandate.&#8221; I will comment on only two points: poor writing skills and unjustified accusation. There should be accountability and a factual basis that underlies a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/theirs\/dimdahl-a-cantankerous-old-man-with-no-credibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dimdahl: &#8216;a cantankerous old man with no credibility&#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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theirs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}