{"id":2398,"date":"2004-08-24T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2398.html"},"modified":"2004-08-24T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T15:21:08","slug":"bush-isnt-really-putting-pen-to-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-isnt-really-putting-pen-to-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush isn&#8217;t really putting pen to paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can appreciate that some want to maintain the fa\u00e7ade that the president&#8217;s words are his own, but the idea that Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/08\/20040823-4.html\">writing his own<\/a> convention speech is pretty silly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: How is work coming on your convention speech? What should we expect from it? <\/p>\n<p>Bush: &#8230;In terms of the speech, I&#8217;m working on it. But I don&#8217;t want to give you any tidbits &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>Q:  Just a little bit. <\/p>\n<p>Bush: I don&#8217;t want to give you any tidbits, for fear that you may not pay attention when I actually stand up there and deliver it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are we really to believe that Bush has told his team of professional speechwriters to take the month off so he can literally &#8220;work&#8221; on his own speech? And what do you imagine that speech would sound like if he really did?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can appreciate that some want to maintain the fa\u00e7ade that the president&#8217;s words are his own, but the idea that Bush is writing his own convention speech is pretty silly. Q: How is work coming on your convention speech? What should we expect from it? Bush: &#8230;In terms of the speech, I&#8217;m working on [&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-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}