{"id":1131,"date":"2004-09-02T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/tonights_gop_theme\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T11:46:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T15:46:38","slug":"tonights_gop_theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/09\/tonights_gop_theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight’s GOP Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepare accordingly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A Safer World, A More Hopeful America”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’ve done a great job laying the groundwork for this, haven’t they? Hope is on the way!
\nLast night Josh Marshall offered one of the better onsite reports<\/a> on the GOP affair. His conclusion:<\/p>\n

This whole confab has been built around militarism, the seductions of the mentality of siege and insecurity both from without and within, and the sort of no-rules-win-at-all-costs-lie-if-it-works mentality that will lead this nation to grief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. As I recall, this line in Cheney’s speech<\/a> drew a wild crowd response:<\/p>\n

My fellow Americans, we have already been attacked, and faced with an enemy who seeks the deadliest of weapons to use against us, we cannot wait for the next attack. We must do everything we can to prevent it \ufffd and that includes the use of military force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What the heck is going on in this country? I thought our objective was peace. But you listen to some people and you’re lead to believe that war is America’s desired policy. Look at that softie Kerry–he talks about alliances and diplomacy. Boo! In contrast, Bush has no reservations in launching a war on the mere suspicion of a threat. Yeah, let’s go to war.
\nStay tuned tonight. War<\/strike> Hope is on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prepare accordingly: “A Safer World, A More Hopeful America” They’ve done a great job laying the groundwork for this, haven’t they? Hope is on the way! Last night Josh Marshall offered one of the better onsite reports on the GOP affair. His conclusion: This whole confab has been built around militarism, the seductions of the […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}