{"id":1631,"date":"2003-08-20T04:55:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/good-things-bush-has-done\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:05:33","slug":"good-things-bush-has-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/good-things-bush-has-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Good things Bush has done"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13717,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003869.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/003869.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13718,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thegofish.com\\\/archives\\\/001891.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Daily Kos is trying to come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/003869.html\" title=\"Three good things Bush has done\">three good things Bush has done<\/a>, and he&#8217;s having problems. I can&#8217;t come up with three &#8212; I can, however, come up with one. Here&#8217;s the text of comment I left over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegofish.com\/archives\/001891.php\" title=\"A day in your shoes\">the Go Fish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Believe it or not, I do have one thing that I can completely seriously thank Bush and his administration for.<\/p>\n<p>  Thanks to his blundering incompetence, many people (myself included) are paying far more attention to politics than we used to. Bush&#8217;s otherwise disastrous presidency just may be the single strongest argument for people to actually wake up and pay attention to what&#8217;s going on in the world around them and to try to do something about it by getting involved than any ad campaign, voter registration drive, or anything else in years. More and more people want Bush out of the White House, and are realizing that for that to happen, they actually have to participate in this democracy of ours.<\/p>\n<p>  And for that, from the bottom of my heart, I thank President Bush.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But that&#8217;s all I can come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, I do have one thing that I can completely seriously thank Bush and his administration for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}