{"id":278,"date":"2003-12-08T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/kerrys_fword\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T17:49:09","slug":"kerrys_fword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/kerrys_fword\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s F-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=536&#038;ncid=536&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20031207\/ap_on_el_pr\/democrats_2004_18\">queries<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, `I&#8217;m against everything?&#8217; Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f&#8212; it up as badly as he did? I don&#8217;t think anybody did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know Kerry didn&#8217;t have an opportunity to question me when he voted, but I&#8217;ve pretty much had low expectations about Bush the whole time.<br \/>\nOf course the White House language police had to respond with their humor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The expletive drew a rebuke from White House, which suggested an apology might be in order.<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s beneath John Kerry,&#8221; the president&#8217;s chief of staff, Andrew Card, said on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Late Edition.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m very disappointed that he would use that kind of language,&#8221; Card said. &#8220;I&#8217;m hoping that he&#8217;s apologizing at least to himself, because that&#8217;s not the John Kerry that I know.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_12_07_atrios_archive.html#107084022436858359\">Right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/kerrys_fword\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Kerry&#8217;s F-Word\"><p>Kerry queries: &#8220;When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, `I&#8217;m against everything?&#8217; Sure. Did I expect George Bush to f&#8212; it up as badly as he did? I don&#8217;t think anybody did.&#8221; [&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-278","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\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}