{"id":2434,"date":"2004-08-30T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2434.html"},"modified":"2004-08-30T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T18:04:34","slug":"its-time-to-move-on-right-after-i-get-this-last-minute-attack-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-time-to-move-on-right-after-i-get-this-last-minute-attack-in\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to move on, right after I get this last-minute attack in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those left-leaning McCain fans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>John McCain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/president\/2004-08-25-mccain-_x.htm\">last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sick and tired of re-fighting the Vietnam War. And most importantly, I&#8217;m sick and tired of opening the wounds of the Vietnam War, which I&#8217;ve spent the last 30 years trying to heal,&#8221; McCain told USA Today. &#8220;It&#8217;s offensive to me, and it&#8217;s angering to me that we&#8217;re doing this. It&#8217;s time to move on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McCain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A46362-2004Aug30.html\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. John McCain said Monday it was fair game to criticize Democrat John Kerry&#8217;s antiwar protests three decades ago, firing an opening salvo as Republicans sought to use their national convention to portray President Bush as a strong wartime leader.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a quick turnaround. I guess he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040906&#038;s=foer090604\">really wants to be president<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those left-leaning McCain fans&#8230; John McCain, last week: &#8220;I&#8217;m sick and tired of re-fighting the Vietnam War. And most importantly, I&#8217;m sick and tired of opening the wounds of the Vietnam War, which I&#8217;ve spent the last 30 years trying to heal,&#8221; McCain told USA Today. &#8220;It&#8217;s offensive to me, and it&#8217;s angering to [&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-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","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=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}