{"id":5909,"date":"2005-11-22T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2005-11-22T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T21:12:34","slug":"a-suggestion-that-strains-the-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-suggestion-that-strains-the-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"A suggestion that strains the imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Barack Obama today called for a troop reduction in Iraq, defended John Murtha, and offered the White House <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20051122\/ap_on_go_co\/obama_iraq;_ylt=Ais1gJ31ecyXl6Pp60PBHZFp24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl\">a helpful suggestion<\/a> that the Bush gang will surely ignore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Obama said Americans want to find solutions to the &#8220;difficult and complicated situation in Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The President could take the politics out of Iraq once and for all if he would simply go on television and say to the American people &#8216;Yes, we made mistakes. Yes, there are things I would have done differently. But now that we&#8217;re here, I am willing to work with both Republicans and Democrats to find the most responsible way out,'&#8221; Obama said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, this isn&#8217;t going to happen. Really. There&#8217;s no chance at all. But part of me wonders if Bush even realizes how much support he&#8217;d gain if he took Obama&#8217;s advice, stopped treating the war like a partisan campaign exercise, and acknowledged his mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d probably get a 10-point bump in the polls overnight. It&#8217;s too bad, for Bush, he could never bring himself to say the words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Barack Obama today called for a troop reduction in Iraq, defended John Murtha, and offered the White House a helpful suggestion that the Bush gang will surely ignore. Obama said Americans want to find solutions to the &#8220;difficult and complicated situation in Iraq.&#8221; &#8220;The President could take the politics out of Iraq once and [&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-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","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=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}