{"id":14611,"date":"2008-02-17T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14611.html"},"modified":"2008-02-17T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T18:42:54","slug":"bush-boasts-of-rock-star-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-boasts-of-rock-star-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush boasts of &#8216;rock star&#8217; reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush appeared alongside Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete for a press conference at Dar Es Salaam this morning, and was <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/17\/bush-african-host-deflect-obama-query\/\">apparently annoyed<\/a> that reporters were interested in a certain senator from Illinois who is running for president with African roots.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press asked Bush a question about his AIDS relief plan and then turned to Kikwete to note the excitement in Africa about Obama&#8217;s candidacy and asked the African leader to comment on &#8220;what you think it says about America that we might elect a black President with roots in Africa?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though that part of the question was not directed at him, Bush weighed in first with mock exasperation that everyone seemed to be forgetting he was treated like a rock star on the trip. &#8220;It seemed like there was a lot of excitement for me, wait a minute,&#8221; the President said to laughter. &#8220;Maybe you missed it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always about him, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush appeared alongside Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete for a press conference at Dar Es Salaam this morning, and was apparently annoyed that reporters were interested in a certain senator from Illinois who is running for president with African roots. Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press asked Bush a question about his AIDS relief plan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}