{"id":7913,"date":"2010-08-31T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2010-08-31T05:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T13:26:34","slug":"will-obama-out-bs-bush-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/31\/will-obama-out-bs-bush-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama Out-BS Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mission Accomplished\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that Obama will have at least half a dozen Montana-sized howlers in his speech tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But will he out-BS Bush on Iraq? <\/p>\n<p>Has anyone seen betting odds on this proposition? It will not be easy, considering that Bush spent 6 years shoveling hokum on Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Obama has embraced most of Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s follies. Perhaps he can rise to this challenge as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mission Accomplished\u00e2\u20ac\u009d speech in 2003. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}