{"id":104,"date":"2006-11-01T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T00:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2006-11-01T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T00:19:24","slug":"flip-flop-flip-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Flip flop, flip flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry is the gift that keeps on giving.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only did his flip flopping in 2003 help Bush win his second term now he&#8217;s trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the Democrats in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been under a rock for the last few days here&#8217;s a summary.\u00c2\u00a0 On Monday Kerry said this while talking to a group at Pasadena City College:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And if you don&#8217;t, you get stuck in Iraq,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course this touched off a firestorm from the Repubs demanding an apology so on Tuesday Kerry said this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I apologize to no one&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally today after some pretty strong pressure from other Dems Kerry said this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span id=\"intelliTXT\">I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Flip flop, flip flop.\u00c2\u00a0 At least we know the drill.\u00c2\u00a0 I read a quote by Dick Cheney who told a crowd:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">&#8220;He was for the joke before he was against it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now the part that makes me a bit miffed.\u00c2\u00a0 Democrats are saying &#8220;Kerry is not on the ballot so why are the Republicans focusing on him?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s try this then.\u00c2\u00a0 George W. Bush is not on the ballot so why are the Democrats focusing on him?<\/p>\n<p>The reason is the Democrats plan for Iraq is the opposite of whatever Bush is doing.\u00c2\u00a0 Never mind that to cut and run would leave the US in\u00c2\u00a0 grave danger.\u00c2\u00a0 They really don&#8217;t care as long as they get the power.\u00c2\u00a0 What happened to the party of Harry Truman and John Kennedy?<br \/>\n<span id=\"intelliTXT\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry is the gift that keeps on giving.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only did his flip flopping in 2003 help Bush win his second term now he&#8217;s trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for the Democrats in 2006. If you&#8217;ve been under a rock for the last few days here&#8217;s a summary.\u00c2\u00a0 On Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}