{"id":774,"date":"2004-03-17T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/foreign_leaders\/"},"modified":"2004-03-17T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:17:43","slug":"foreign_leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/foreign_leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Kerry&#8217;s comment&#8211;or failure to deny the misquote&#8211;on foreign leaders supporting him is a bad move.  Kerry should be using this period to generate a favorable &#8220;first&#8221; impression among voters who aren&#8217;t familiar with him.  He shouldn&#8217;t be waging these trivial spats with the White House while the Bush campaign goes about defining him on their own terms.<br \/>\nThat being said, the Bushies response of &#8220;name the leaders&#8221; is disingenuous.  If Kerry continues to do the prudent thing and doesn&#8217;t name any leaders, the right will attack him for making unsubstantiated claims.  If Kerry were to name someone, or a foreign leader went public, the rightists would respond by saying, &#8220;Why should the UN be picking the American president?&#8221;  Either way they simply try to discredit Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/foreign_leaders\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Foreign Leaders\"><p>I think that Kerry&#8217;s comment&#8211;or failure to deny the misquote&#8211;on foreign leaders supporting him is a bad move. Kerry should be using this period to generate a favorable &#8220;first&#8221; impression among voters who aren&#8217;t familiar with him. He shouldn&#8217;t be waging these trivial spats with the White House while the Bush campaign goes about defining [&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-774","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\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}