{"id":2610,"date":"2004-09-24T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2610.html"},"modified":"2004-09-24T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:54:34","slug":"looked-like-wavering-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/looked-like-wavering-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Looked like wavering to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/09\/20040922-10.html\">Bush made it clear<\/a> that you have to be prepared to stand up and take action if you&#8217;re going to lead a war on terrorism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You cannot lead the war against terror if you wilt or waver when times get tough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds right to me. And yet, when things got tough the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and his chief of staff told him that &#8220;America is under attack,&#8221; he sat and read &#8220;My Pet Goat&#8221; to a group of children for seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just wondering, isn&#8217;t that a pretty clear example of &#8220;wilting and wavering&#8221; when things got tough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Bush made it clear that you have to be prepared to stand up and take action if you&#8217;re going to lead a war on terrorism. &#8220;You cannot lead the war against terror if you wilt or waver when times get tough.&#8221; Sounds right to me. And yet, when things got tough the morning [&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-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}