{"id":15231,"date":"2010-11-09T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2010-11-09T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T19:49:17","slug":"a-class-act-even-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15231","title":{"rendered":"A Class Act Even Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bush waxes transparently, assessing his own presidential shortcomings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/entertainment\/tv\/106966208.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUss\">The former president said he still feels &#8220;sick about&#8221; the fact no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq<\/a>. His response to Hurricane Katrina could have been quicker, he said, and he should have landed Air Force One two days after the storm instead of viewing the destruction through the plane&#8217;s window. And he said he didn&#8217;t see the financial meltdown coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Why?!<\/p>\n<p>Why?!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Why&#8230;Mr. President, did you have to do this on Oprah?<\/p>\n<p>PS Don&#8217;t feel bad Mr. President. Warren Buffet and a the vast majority of the world of finance didn&#8217;t see it coming either.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush had nothing negative to say about President Barack Obama, whom Winfrey famously supported in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t like it when people criticized me,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;And so you&#8217;re not going to see me out there chirping away (at Obama). And I want our president to succeed. I love our country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>George Bush may not have been conservative enough for many of us, but I believe he was honest in his dealings as President and he remains to this day one of the most respectable, reverent and selfless leaders to have ever occupied the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;in stark contrast with The One there now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bush waxes transparently, assessing his own presidential shortcomings: The former president said he still feels &#8220;sick about&#8221; the fact no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. His response to Hurricane Katrina could have been quicker, he said, and he should have landed Air Force One two days after the storm instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15244,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions\/15244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}