{"id":1451,"date":"2004-03-23T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1451.html"},"modified":"2004-03-23T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T16:40:11","slug":"im-sure-safire-can-explain-how-this-is-the-most-amazing-head-fake-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/im-sure-safire-can-explain-how-this-is-the-most-amazing-head-fake-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m sure Safire can explain how this is the most amazing head fake of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Hillary Clinton on behalf of John Kerry. It sure <i>sounds<\/i> like she&#8217;s supporting Kerry&#8217;s campaign enthusiastically.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I appreciate having this opportunity to talk with you about something that&#8217;s important to both of us &#8212; the 2004 presidential election. You and I share a strong desire to put John Kerry in the White House, and we&#8217;re not alone: <\/p>\n<p>Did you know that in the past five days, nearly 75,000 people from all across the country have donated almost $7 million to help John Kerry get his message out? <\/p>\n<p>I am writing today to ask you for your help, too. <\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/activate.johnkerry.com\/t?ctl=54F32A:1E7A26A\">contributing<\/a> to this great cause, you can make sure that John Kerry&#8217;s message of hope, promise, and opportunity isn&#8217;t drowned out in a sea of Republican attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any minute now, I expect to hear William Safire explain &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/001158.html\">again<\/a> &#8212; how all of this is an elaborate ruse, obscuring the fact that Hillary is secretly plotting her own White House campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an email from Hillary Clinton on behalf of John Kerry. It sure sounds like she&#8217;s supporting Kerry&#8217;s campaign enthusiastically. I appreciate having this opportunity to talk with you about something that&#8217;s important to both of us &#8212; the 2004 presidential election. You and I share a strong desire to put John Kerry [&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-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}