{"id":959,"date":"2004-06-07T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/reagan_lite\/"},"modified":"2004-06-07T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T17:59:15","slug":"reagan_lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/reagan_lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to tap into the Reagan karma<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Brokaw:<\/b> “You’re here in France for this great feeling, especially in Normandy, for the Americans as a result of what they did 60 years ago.
\n“But throughout Europe, even your friends will say big-time American businessmen, who are over here a lot, they’ve never seen anti-Americanism so high or the personal feelings against you so high as well. Is that important for you to remedy?”
\nBush:<\/b> “You know, look. It’s important for people to know what –that I’ve got a future, that I believe in a future that’s peaceful based upon liberty. And I remember my predecessor who’s life we mourn, Ronald Reagan, they felt the same way about him.
\n“Tom, that doesn’t mean a fella like me should change my beliefs. I’m not going to. I’m not trying to be popular. What I’m trying to do is what I think is right. And what is right is to fight terror.
\n“And what is right is to spread freedom. And what is right, to stand on the — is to stand on the values that my country and our country upholds. And I will continue to do so. In the meantime, I work hard to build alliances. And you know, we’ve got good relations with countries in Europe. And the countries in Europe like Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, have been strong supporters of our mutual policies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, Mr. President. The reason most of the world doesn’t like you is not because you’re attempting to “spread freedom.” The reason the world doesn’t like you is because you’re arrogant. You think that just because you control the world’s military might and have a political blueprint for electoral victory, you can do whatever you want without regard to what other nations think.
\nThat’s why the world doesn’t like you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to tap into the Reagan karma: Brokaw: “You’re here in France for this great feeling, especially in Normandy, for the Americans as a result of what they did 60 years ago. “But throughout Europe, even your friends will say big-time American businessmen, who are over here a lot, they’ve never seen anti-Americanism so high […]<\/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-959","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\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}