{"id":1196,"date":"2004-10-07T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T17:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/you_cant_stretch\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T17:57:56","slug":"you_cant_stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/you_cant_stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Stretch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justmy2.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/its-ok-if-you-are-republican.html\">Just My 2<\/a> offers this 2000 flashback in the <a title=\"Presidential Debate Fails to Draw Large Audience; Gore and Bush Travel to Swing States - October 4, 2000\" href=\"http:\/\/www-cgi.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0010\/04\/ip.00.html\">George W. Bush time machine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BUSH: If there&#8217;s pattern of just exaggeration and stretches to try to win votes, it says something about leadership as far as I&#8217;m concerned, because once you&#8217;re the president, you can&#8217;t stretch. In foreign diplomacy there needs to be a plain-spoken, you know, attitude.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What kind of &#8220;exaggeration&#8221; was Bush referring to?  Al Gore&#8217;s mistake during the presidential debate in saying he had toured a particular disaster with FEMA Director James Witt.<br \/>\nSo what does Bush&#8217;s &#8220;stretch&#8221; test say about the leadership of Dick &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/10\/05\/debate.fact.check.ap\/index.html\">the first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight<\/a>&#8221; Cheney?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/you_cant_stretch\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Stretch&#8221;\"><p>Just My 2 offers this 2000 flashback in the George W. Bush time machine: BUSH: If there&#8217;s pattern of just exaggeration and stretches to try to win votes, it says something about leadership as far as I&#8217;m concerned, because once you&#8217;re the president, you can&#8217;t stretch. In foreign diplomacy there needs to be a plain-spoken, [&hellip;]<\/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-1196","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\/1196","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=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}