{"id":1093,"date":"2009-01-13T21:59:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2009-01-13T21:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T03:59:43","slug":"bushisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1093","title":{"rendered":"Bushisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate lists the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2208132\/\">top 25<\/a>.  I drives me nuts when Bush&#8217;s defenders &#8212; his few remaining defenders &#8212; claim that he&#8217;s a good president but a bad public speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Effective communication is part of the job description, guys.  Reagan was able to advance a conservative agenda, in part, because he could persuade the American people to support it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that and he wasn&#8217;t a unprincipled shill only interested in defeating the other party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate lists the top 25. I drives me nuts when Bush&#8217;s defenders &#8212; his few remaining defenders &#8212; claim that he&#8217;s a good president but a bad public speaker. Effective communication is part of the job description, guys. Reagan was able to advance a conservative agenda, in part, because he could persuade the American people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bushisms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-bushisms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}