{"id":3280,"date":"2004-12-29T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3280.html"},"modified":"2004-12-29T13:59:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-29T18:59:30","slug":"my-nominee-for-quote-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/my-nominee-for-quote-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My nominee for quote of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a year-in-review project and stumbled upon a quote I had forgotten about it. While far too many people said too many stupid things this year, I believe this quote, which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/gossip\/story\/153985p-135485c.html\">president offered in January<\/a>, may be the most breathtaking thing anyone said in 2004.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, it seemed pretty ridiculous. It wasn&#8217;t hard to think of a variety of other presidents who had advanced the cause of human rights with far greater success than Bush.<\/p>\n<p>But that, of course, was before we learned of some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.org\/war\/iraqis_tortured\/index2.htm\">compelling<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2004-05-12-congress-abuse_x.htm\">reasons<\/a> to believe Bush may be the single <i>worst<\/i> president for human rights in American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working on a year-in-review project and stumbled upon a quote I had forgotten about it. While far too many people said too many stupid things this year, I believe this quote, which the president offered in January, may be the most breathtaking thing anyone said in 2004. &#8220;No President has ever done more [&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-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","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=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}