{"id":795,"date":"2004-04-07T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=795"},"modified":"2018-08-14T09:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T14:06:48","slug":"795","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/795\/","title":{"rendered":"Us and Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/nat\/apr04\/220050.asp\" target=\"new\">catches John Kerry in an unfortunate pronoun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrat John Kerry said Monday that the violent Shiite uprising in Iraq underscores the Bush administration&#8217;s failure to build a &#8220;genuine&#8221; international coalition there and create the conditions for lasting stability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think <b>they&#8217;re<\/b> on a terrible course,&#8221; Kerry said of the administration&#8217;s performance, while speaking in Washington, D.C., to a group of reporters, most from Midwestern newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the United States should arrest Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical cleric who inspired the uprising, Kerry said, &#8220;I think <b>they&#8217;ve<\/b> got to do what <b>they&#8217;ve<\/b> got to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree with all of Bush&#8217;s policies, Senator, but I do agree that <b>we<\/b> are one country, and it&#8217;s <b>our<\/b> countrymen who are in Iraq right now, carrying out the orders of <b>our<\/b> elected leader.<\/p>\n<p>So, Senator, how else can you divide this country into <i>us<\/i> and <i>them<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Pretend like I haven&#8217;t paid attention to your campaign so far and summarize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel catches John Kerry in an unfortunate pronoun: Democrat John Kerry said Monday that the violent Shiite uprising in Iraq underscores the Bush administration&#8217;s failure to build a &#8220;genuine&#8221; international coalition there and create the conditions for lasting stability. &#8220;I think they&#8217;re on a terrible course,&#8221; Kerry said of the administration&#8217;s performance, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23473,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/23473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}