{"id":2809,"date":"2004-09-30T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T05:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2004-09-30T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T05:23:37","slug":"some-thoughts-about-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/30\/some-thoughts-about-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Thoughts About The Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall a very good debate, and much more substantial than we&#8217;d been lead to expect.  Some thoughts:<\/p>\n<li>First three words out of Bush&#8217;s mouth, after the standard &#8220;Thank you for having me&#8221; boilerplate: &#8220;September the 11th &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I thought Kerry did well, but Bush gave him a couple of slow pitches right over the plate that he completely missed.  Bush:  &#8220;You know, we have to be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy only has to be right once to hurt us.&#8221;  Surely Kerry could have used this opportunity to point out that, in the &#8220;be right&#8221; department, Bush is batting about a .143.<\/li>\n<li>In his adherance to his talking points, Bush missed some opportunity to nail Kerry as well.  When Kerry said &#8220;Humvees &#8212; 10,000 out of 12,000 Humvees that are over there [in Iraq] aren<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall a very good debate, and much more substantial than we&#8217;d been lead to expect. Some thoughts: First three words out of Bush&#8217;s mouth, after the standard &#8220;Thank you for having me&#8221; boilerplate: &#8220;September the 11th &#8230;&#8221; I thought Kerry did well, but Bush gave him a couple of slow pitches right over the plate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}