{"id":2523,"date":"2004-09-14T12:02:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2523.html"},"modified":"2004-09-14T12:02:51","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T17:02:51","slug":"did-bush-and-kerry-chat-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/did-bush-and-kerry-chat-recently\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Bush and Kerry chat recently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a campaign event in Holland, Mich., yesterday, Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040913-5.html\">seemed to suggest<\/a> he spoke directly to John Kerry recently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m running against a fellow who&#8217;s promised at least $2 trillion in new money so far. And we haven&#8217;t even gotten in the stretch run yet. So <i>I said to him the other day<\/i>, well, how are you going to pay for them? And he said, that&#8217;s easy, just tax the rich.&#8221; (emphasis added)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What an interesting conversation that must have been! How did the entire political press miss this?<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, I know, it&#8217;s because it never happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a campaign event in Holland, Mich., yesterday, Bush seemed to suggest he spoke directly to John Kerry recently. &#8220;I&#8217;m running against a fellow who&#8217;s promised at least $2 trillion in new money so far. And we haven&#8217;t even gotten in the stretch run yet. So I said to him the other day, well, how [&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-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}