{"id":3527,"date":"2008-10-23T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2008-10-23T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T20:26:59","slug":"putting-george-bush-in-the-rear-view-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3527","title":{"rendered":"Putting George Bush in the Rear View Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/10\/23\/mccain-lashes-out-at-bushs-record\/\">John McCain today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously,&#8221; McCain told the Washington Times when asked to name his criticisms of the current president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those are just some of them&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s hanging an awful lot <em>solely <\/em>around President Bush&#8217;s neck. (I&#8217;m pretty sure GWB didn&#8217;t cause Global Warming)<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless I think that&#8217;s what you call a <em>Maverick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Agree or not, I dare Barack Obama to do this.<em> Even Once<\/em>. Stand on principle. Challenge his party leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t even do this with Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko or Rev. Wright.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t vote &#8220;Present&#8221; as President. But apparently you can exhibit an astounding lack of accomplishments and leadership and be a <em>candidate<\/em> for President.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Obama would <em>ever <\/em>veto anything? Do you think he&#8217;ll temper the designs on socialism that Reid and Pelosi have in mind (or will it be <em>his <\/em>idea?)?<\/p>\n<p>Would he be Congress&#8217; lapdog?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ruff!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain today: &#8220;Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government, larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America, owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","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=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}