{"id":2355,"date":"2004-03-25T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T06:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/25\/presidential-compassion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:48:05","slug":"presidential-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/25\/presidential-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11432,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/4596717&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20121124071756\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.msnbc.msn.com\\\/id\\\/4596717\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 16:25:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:08:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:08:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:400},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11433,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/3\\\/25\\\/142644\\\/871&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20061216140031\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/3\\\/25\\\/142644\\\/871&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 16:26:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:09:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:09:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11434,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/000852.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050505173013\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/000852.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 16:26:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:08:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 01:08:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, if I were part of one of the hundreds of families who have lost a member to the war in Iraq, I wouldn&#8217;t be very amused at all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4596717\/\" title=\"Bush pokes fun at himself, staff\">Bush turning it into a joke<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Bush put on a slide show, calling it the &#8220;White House Election-Year Album&#8221; at the Radio and Television Correspondents&#8217; Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses.<\/p>\n<p>  There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. &#8220;Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;d be pretty damn pissed about it. Actually, I don&#8217;t even have had to have lost a loved one to be pissed.<\/p>\n<p>Shmuck.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/3\/25\/142644\/871\" title=\"Bush Now Making Jokes About WMDs\">Daily Kos<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/000852.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: Hardy HAR HAR HAR.\">Kirsten<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, if I were part of one of the hundreds of families who have lost a member to the war in Iraq, I wouldn&#8217;t be very amused at all about Bush turning it into a joke&hellip;<\/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-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}