{"id":1213,"date":"2004-08-01T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:29:41","slug":"1213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/01\/1213\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like an Old Friend, Kick Him When He&#8217;s Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steyn\/cst-edt-steyn01.html\" target=\"_new\">writes<\/a> in the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it in the people I&#8217;ve met and their desire to take our country back for the American people. I saw it in a college student in Pennsylvania who sold her bicycle and sent us a check for $100 with a note that said, &#8216;I sold my bicycle for democracy.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Really? John F. Kerry&#8217;s bicycle cost $8,000. Why doesn&#8217;t he sell his for democracy? If you throw in the designer French T-shirt and buttock-hugging lemon-hued lycra shorts, you&#8217;d probably be up around an even ten grand. When Howard Dean and John Kerry and John Edwards talk about &#8220;change,&#8221; what they mean is you send these bazillionaire grandees the hundred-dollar bill and they&#8217;ll keep the change.<\/p>\n<p>What did that co-ed cutie get for her hundred bucks? Presumably she sent it to Governor Dean because he was anti-war. He lost to Senator Kerry, who at that time was for-and-against the war, in the same way that he&#8217;s for-and-against abortion and for-and-against gay marriage. But he seems to have come down, Iraq-wise, on the &#8220;for&#8221; side of the ledger. He&#8217;ll be spending a little more time ineffectually chit-chatting with Kofi and Jacques and Gerhard, but other than that his Iraq policy is sounding more like Bush&#8217;s every day. That college kid ponied up her $100 and isn&#8217;t getting a lot of &#8220;change.&#8221; I wonder if she&#8217;s missing her bicycle this summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn writes in the Chicago Sun-Times: &#8220;I&#8217;ve seen it in the people I&#8217;ve met and their desire to take our country back for the American people. I saw it in a college student in Pennsylvania who sold her bicycle and sent us a check for $100 with a note that said, &#8216;I sold my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23001,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/23001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}