{"id":2246,"date":"2004-08-03T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2004-08-03T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2246.html"},"modified":"2004-08-03T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T14:49:20","slug":"its-not-political-its-just-praise-for-the-president-on-a-key-issue-during-the-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-not-political-its-just-praise-for-the-president-on-a-key-issue-during-the-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not political; it&#8217;s just praise for the president on a key issue during the campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ridge, explaining security precautions at the DNCC, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A50158-2004Jul14.html\">July 15<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t do politics at Homeland Security.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ridge, alerting the public to a new terrorist threat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/nation\/2713552\">on Sunday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[W]e must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the president&#8217;s leadership in the war against terror.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why reporters continue to find this man credible is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ridge, explaining security precautions at the DNCC, on July 15: &#8220;We don&#8217;t do politics at Homeland Security.&#8221; Ridge, alerting the public to a new terrorist threat, on Sunday: &#8220;[W]e must understand that the kind of information available to us today is the result of the president&#8217;s leadership in the war against terror.&#8221; Why reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","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=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}