{"id":3243,"date":"2004-12-21T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3243.html"},"modified":"2004-12-21T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2004-12-21T15:00:04","slug":"bushs-credibility-on-others-hearts-is-hardly-reliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bushs-credibility-on-others-hearts-is-hardly-reliable\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush’s credibility on others’ hearts is hardly reliable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush’s responses<\/a> to reporters’ questions yesterday about Donald Rumsfeld predictably dodged specific concerns and relied on the president’s expertise in psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n

“Listen, I know how — I know Secretary Rumsfeld’s heart. I know how much he cares for the troops. … [H]e is — he’s a good, decent man. He’s a caring fellow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, we’re supposed to tolerate a criminally inept Defense Secretary because Bush knows his “heart.” But at this point, can we really count on Bush as a qualified judge of character? Indeed, the rhetoric was eerily familiar.<\/p>\n

Bush is, after all, the same guy who said Bernard Kerik<\/a> is “a good man.” Bush also famously once looked into a Vladimir Putin’s “heart and soul<\/a>” in order to determine that this former KGB agent, who is attacking the democratic institutions of Russia, is honest and trustworthy.<\/p>\n

Now we’re supposed to be placated with the knowledge that Rumfeld’s a “caring fellow”? Fool me twice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush’s responses to reporters’ questions yesterday about Donald Rumsfeld predictably dodged specific concerns and relied on the president’s expertise in psychoanalysis. “Listen, I know how — I know Secretary Rumsfeld’s heart. I know how much he cares for the troops. … [H]e is — he’s a good, decent man. He’s a caring fellow.” So, we’re […]<\/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-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}