{"id":214,"date":"2004-06-03T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-06-03T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2004-06-03T14:48:52","slug":"bush-flipping-bush-flopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Bush Flipping, Bush Flopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BushFlipFlops.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\">It has been said, that John Kerry is a &#8220;Flip-Flopper&#8221;. Said by those who are quite professional at creating a false impression of their challenger. And for good reason. It&#8217;s the only chance they have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spoken about this successfully waged fallacy before, but apparently the message still needs to get out on who the <i>real<\/i> &#8220;Flip-Flopper&#8221; in this contest is. Thankfully, the nice folks at the Center for American Progress have put together a short sheet listing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=42263\" target=\"_blank\">20 of the Flip-Flopper-In-Chief&#8217;s greatest hits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put it all in perspective, they open with this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">From the beginning, George W. Bush has made his own credibility a central issue. On 10\/11\/00, then Governor Bush said: &#8220;I think credibility is important. It is going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with foreign nations.&#8221; But President Bush&#8217;s serial flip-flopping raises serious questions about whether Congress and foreign leaders can rely on what he says.<\/div>\n<p>Then they list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=42263\" target=\"_blank\">20 of Bush&#8217;s Flips and Flops<\/a>. They&#8217;ve left out quite a few, but on the other hand, unlike the charges against Kerry from Team Bush, these charges are actually sourced so folks can both trust and verify.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks to the ever-on-the-ball <a href=\"http:\/\/kjo84.typepad.com\/kjo84\/\" target=\"_blank\">KJO<\/a> for the find!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been said, that John Kerry is a &#8220;Flip-Flopper&#8221;. Said by those who are quite professional at creating a false impression of their challenger. And for good reason. It&#8217;s the only chance they have. I&#8217;ve spoken about this successfully waged fallacy before, but apparently the message still needs to get out on who the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}