{"id":2707,"date":"2006-04-18T13:01:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2007-09-10T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T17:21:19","slug":"video-bush-im-the-decider-and-i-decide-what-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Bush: &#8216;I&#8217;m The Decider and I Decide What Is Best&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"mailto:david@edwardsdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/cbs\/images\/cbs_bush_defends_rumsfeld_060418a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cbs\/cbs_bush_defends_rumsfeld_060418a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/bb_play_video-a.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cbs\/cbs_bush_defends_rumsfeld_060418a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\">Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/cbs\/cbs_bush_defends_rumsfeld_060418a_320x240.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning while announcing staff changes, President Bush explained the inner-workings of presidential authority:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Bush:<\/b> &#8230;and on Friday I stood up and said I don&#8217;t appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld. He&#8217;s doin&#8217; a fine job. I strongly support him.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reporter:<\/b> What do you say to the critics who believe that you are ignoring the advice of retired generals and military commanders who say there needs to be a change?<\/p>\n<p><b>Bush:<\/b> I say I listen to all voices but mine&#8217;s the final decision and Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job. He&#8217;s not only transforming the military, he&#8217;s fighting a war on terror &#8211; He&#8217;s helping us fight a war on terror. I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld. I hear the voices and I read the front page and I know the speculation but <b>I&#8217;m the decider and I decide what is best<\/b> and what&#8217;s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of defense.\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; This morning while announcing staff changes, President Bush explained the inner-workings of presidential authority: Bush: &#8230;and on Friday I stood up and said I don&#8217;t appreciate the speculation about Don Rumsfeld. He&#8217;s doin&#8217; a fine job. I strongly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}