{"id":1807,"date":"2008-06-17T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:54:57","slug":"tbtm20080617","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"TBTM20080617"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SFdVO9R3O6I\/AAAAAAAACGI\/xv5vmfsB8mM\/s1600-h\/TBTM20080617.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/SFdVO9R3O6I\/AAAAAAAACGI\/xv5vmfsB8mM\/s400\/TBTM20080617.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fafblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/08\/priest-avatar-of-state-there-are-times.html\">&#8220;&#8230;and that is exactly what the President did on that terrible day: when America needed to be protected, George Bush was projecting an aura of protectedness; when America needed to be safe, George Bush was looking like safety; when America needed to be strong, George Bush was exuding something like strength. When you watch that clip again, in Michael Moore&#8217;s detestable piece of propaganda or elsewhere, remind yourself, This is what a President is for: projecting, smiling, posing, waving, doing nothing.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That or he was simply out of the loop.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;and that is exactly what the President did on that terrible day: when America needed to be protected, George Bush was projecting an aura of protectedness; when America needed to be safe, George Bush was looking like safety; when America &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1807\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","category-politics","category-tbtm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-t9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}