{"id":1383,"date":"2004-03-11T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T16:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1383.html"},"modified":"2004-03-11T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2004-03-11T16:09:41","slug":"i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-not-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-not-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m not optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, when he has to read a well-written speech, Bush isn&#8217;t half-bad on the stump. It&#8217;s when he has to speak off-the-cuff when <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2096915\/\">he runs into trouble<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From a speech the president delivered earlier this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The march to war affected the people&#8217;s confidence. It&#8217;s hard to make investment. See, if you&#8217;re a small business owner or a large business owner and you&#8217;re thinking about investing, you&#8217;ve got to be optimistic when you invest. Except when you&#8217;re marching to war, it&#8217;s not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it&#8217;s the opposite of optimistic when you&#8217;re thinking you&#8217;re going to war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That clears everything up, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit, when he has to read a well-written speech, Bush isn&#8217;t half-bad on the stump. It&#8217;s when he has to speak off-the-cuff when he runs into trouble. From a speech the president delivered earlier this week: &#8220;The march to war affected the people&#8217;s confidence. It&#8217;s hard to make investment. See, if you&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}