{"id":418,"date":"2004-09-01T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2005-02-04T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T06:51:46","slug":"the-case-against-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/01\/the-case-against-george-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case Against George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/features\/articles\/2004\/040729_mfe_reagan_1.html\">Esquire:Feature Story:The Case Against George W. Bush<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote by none other than Ron Reagan, son of the fortieth president of the United States, from a fantastic article he wrote in Esquire; note that this is a conservative&#8217;s perspective.  Go on, then!<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;It&#8217;s one thing to get trashed by Michael Moore. But when Nobel laureates, a vast majority of the scientific community, and a host of current and former diplomats, intelligence operatives, and military officials line up against you, it becomes increasingly difficult to characterize the opposition as fringe wackos.&#8217;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>see Esquire:Feature Story:The Case Against George W. Bush Here&#8217;s a quote by none other than Ron Reagan, son of the fortieth president of the United States, from a fantastic article he wrote in Esquire; note that this is a conservative&#8217;s perspective. Go on, then! &#8216;It&#8217;s one thing to get trashed by Michael Moore. But when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-6K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":435,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/07\/the-conservative-case-against-george-w-bush\/","url_meta":{"origin":418,"position":0},"title":"THE CONSERVATIVE CASE AGAINST GEORGE W. 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