{"id":880,"date":"2008-10-07T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/?p=880"},"modified":"2008-10-30T21:18:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T02:18:20","slug":"mush-bush-calls-for-concerted-international-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/mush-bush-calls-for-concerted-international-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"mush Bush calls for concerted international effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President George Bush today called for a coordinated international effort to solve financial problems that threaten to bring down the world economy. Good for shrub, but I can&#8217;t forbear to point out that this is the same President Bush who just a few short years ago seemed to believe in the invincibility of the United States, much as Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, seems, today, to believe. The BBC is updating <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7657842.stm\">the Bush story<\/a> with new video, but the first version carried under the President&#8217;s picture the very interesting caption, &#8220;Mush Bush warned it would take time for the financial crisis to pass.&#8221; I wish I had thought to take a screen shot.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the DOW is down over 500 points. I could almost feel sorry for shrub these days, maybe even admire him for trying to rise to the occasion. Nah &#8212; I&#8217;d rather remind myself of this:\n<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.backwardsbush.com\/images\/BackwardsBush_Flash.swf\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" name=\"BackwardsBush\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/embed><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President George Bush today called for a coordinated international effort to solve financial problems that threaten to bring down the world economy. Good for shrub, but I can&#8217;t forbear to point out that this is the same President Bush who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/mush-bush-calls-for-concerted-international-effort\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,45,65],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-economic-crisis","tag-george-bush","tag-world-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/julianlong.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}