{"id":7885,"date":"2006-07-08T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7885.html"},"modified":"2006-07-08T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T15:02:19","slug":"the-president-could-probably-learn-a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-president-could-probably-learn-a-few-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The president could probably learn a few things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Bush held a rare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/07\/20060707-1.html\">solo press conference<\/a> in Chicago&#8217;s Museum of Science and Industry. A few hours later, at a fundraiser for Illinois gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka, the president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/07\/20060707-2.html\">mentioned<\/a> how much he liked the museum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By the way, if you go to the Science Museum, take your kids, it is a special place. I know there are some members of the board who are here &#8212; it is really great. And I&#8217;m looking forward to shedding my entourage one of these days and spending a little quality time there at the museum.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, that&#8217;s a great idea (not shedding the entourage; spending time at the museum). In fact, I checked out the museum&#8217;s website this morning and found that one of the lead exhibits, right now, is about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msichicago.org\/temp_exhibit\/frogs\/facts\/facts04.html\">evolution in action<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, Mr. President, go right ahead and spend as much &#8220;quality time&#8221; at the Museum of Science and Industry as you can. There might even be an exhibit on global warming in there somewhere&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Bush held a rare solo press conference in Chicago&#8217;s Museum of Science and Industry. A few hours later, at a fundraiser for Illinois gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka, the president mentioned how much he liked the museum. &#8220;By the way, if you go to the Science Museum, take your kids, it is a special [&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-7885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885","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=7885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}