{"id":7354,"date":"2006-05-08T15:36:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7354"},"modified":"2006-05-08T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:36:11","slug":"a-man-and-his-rug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-man-and-his-rug\/","title":{"rendered":"A man and his rug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the [tag]president[\/tag]’s weekend interview with Kai Diekmann of the “pro-Bush<\/a>, breast-baring German tabloid newspaper, [tag]Bild[\/tag],” began, the president wanted to talk about … his rug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bush: Have you ever been in the [tag]Oval Office[\/tag] before?<\/p>\n

Q: Once, a long time ago —<\/p>\n

[tag]Bush[\/tag]: I’ll give you a quick tour before our interview. So, the first thing that a President does, which I didn’t realize, was pick a [tag]rug[\/tag]. I have no idea about rugs. And so in this job you’ve got to delegate. The American President is in a position where there’s just unbelievable complexities to the job — Darfur, Iran — a whole lot of issues. So I delegated the decision about the rug to my wife.<\/p>\n

The second thing a President has got to do is have a strategic mind. In order to be successful, in my judgment, as the President, you’ve got to constantly think strategically. And so I said to her, you pick out the colors, you be the tactical person, but I want it to say “[tag]optimistic person[\/tag].” That’s all I wanted it to say. Here is the result. Isn’t it beautiful?<\/p>\n

Q: Yes, it is very beautiful.<\/p>\n

Bush: There’s a sense of optimism when you come in here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First, Bush really seems fixated on that rug<\/a>. Second, I still don’t understand how a rug can say “optimistic person.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before the [tag]president[\/tag]’s weekend interview with Kai Diekmann of the “pro-Bush, breast-baring German tabloid newspaper, [tag]Bild[\/tag],” began, the president wanted to talk about … his rug. Bush: Have you ever been in the [tag]Oval Office[\/tag] before? Q: Once, a long time ago — [tag]Bush[\/tag]: I’ll give you a quick tour before our interview. So, the […]<\/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-7354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354","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=7354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}