{"id":5764,"date":"2005-11-07T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2005-11-07T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T17:45:13","slug":"george-sees-a-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/george-sees-a-map\/","title":{"rendered":"George sees a map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can only hope this didn&#8217;t sound as bad in person as it does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/07\/international\/07prexy.html\">in print<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At one point, [Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva] even exhibited a map of his country, which is larger than the continental United States. &#8220;Wow! Brazil is big,&#8221; [Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister] quoted the American president as responding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the president&#8217;s defense, we&#8217;re getting this second hand &#8212; the NYT quoted the Brazilian foreign minister, not Bush directly. But who&#8217;s ready to say with confidence that Bush wasn&#8217;t actually surprised when someone showed him a map of Brazil?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, Bush&#8217;s history with Brazilian presidents isn&#8217;t all that great to begin with. You may recall, for example, that in November 2001, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/76886\/\">Bush asked<\/a> then-President Fernando Cardoso, &#8220;Do you have blacks, too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only three more years, only three more years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can only hope this didn&#8217;t sound as bad in person as it does in print. At one point, [Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva] even exhibited a map of his country, which is larger than the continental United States. &#8220;Wow! Brazil is big,&#8221; [Celso Amorim, the Brazilian foreign minister] quoted the American president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}