{"id":1271,"date":"2004-08-23T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2018-08-13T05:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:27:11","slug":"1271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/23\/1271\/","title":{"rendered":"Was That a Rhetorical Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also from the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steinberg\/cst-nws-stein23.html\" target=\"_new\">Steinberg column<\/a> discussed below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How the Republicans could have imagined there would be any upside in questioning John Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam record is a mystery. Doesn&#8217;t it all boil down to this: Kerry went to war and President Bush didn&#8217;t? Frankly, if Kerry had responded to combat by flinging away his gun and hiding in tears under a tarp on his swift boat, it wouldn&#8217;t erase the overarching fact that he put himself in harm&#8217;s way for his country, while Bush hid behind the privilege that was to eventually deposit him, blinking and amazed, into the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not unless you&#8217;re purposefully trying to oversimplify the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I guess that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s trying to do by removing the context of each&#8217;s service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also from the same Steinberg column discussed below: How the Republicans could have imagined there would be any upside in questioning John Kerry&#8217;s Vietnam record is a mystery. Doesn&#8217;t it all boil down to this: Kerry went to war and President Bush didn&#8217;t? Frankly, if Kerry had responded to combat by flinging away his gun [&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-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22933,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/22933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}