{"id":227,"date":"2009-01-13T10:24:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-01-13T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T14:24:02","slug":"the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"The question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right, so during President Bush&#8217;s last press conference, he makes the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/01\/12\/AR2009011200617.html?hpid=topnews\">declaration<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It (America&#8217;s moral standing) may be damaged amongst some of the elite,&#8221; Bush replied, &#8220;but people still understand America stands for freedom, that America is a country that provides such great hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You go to Africa, you ask Africans about America&#8217;s generosity and compassion; go to India and ask about . . . their view of America. Go to China and ask,&#8221; Bush went on. &#8220;Now, no question parts of Europe have said that we shouldn&#8217;t have gone to war in Iraq without a mandate, but those are a few countries. Most countries in Europe listened to what 1441 said, which is disclose, disarm or face serious consequences&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still true?  That&#8217;s the question? Or is it true, but for a dwindling number of individuals?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right, so during President Bush&#8217;s last press conference, he makes the following declaration: &#8220;It (America&#8217;s moral standing) may be damaged amongst some of the elite,&#8221; Bush replied, &#8220;but people still understand America stands for freedom, that America is a country that provides such great hope.&#8221; &#8220;You go to Africa, you ask Africans about America&#8217;s generosity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The question<\/span> <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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-3F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}