{"id":3,"date":"2004-01-25T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-25T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-09-10T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:20:25","slug":"careful-what-you-wish-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Careful What You Wish For&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FACTS:<br \/>\n+ <b>I was right about Howard Dean&#8217;s rant.<\/b> It&#8217;s kept him in the news, and the fact that he placed a disappointing 3rd place in Iowa <i>out<\/i> of the news.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>Nobody was &quot;frightened by Howard Dean&quot;<\/b> in that rant other than the Media who saw a story (<i>&quot;See! He&#8217;s unstable!&quot;<\/i> &#8211; which, of course, he isn&#8217;t).<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>Dean is coming back in the polls now<\/b>, only 7 points behind Kerry according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zogby.com\/news\/ReadNews.dbm?ID=792\" target=\"_blank\">Zogby<\/a>, who was the only pollster to actually get it absolutely right in both the &#8217;00 and &#8217;96 elections. Everyone else got it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>In case you need further proof<\/b>, the Media continue to call Dean &quot;dead&quot;. Nuff said.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>The best thing that could happen for the Dems<\/b> is this 4 (or 5 or 6) man scrum at the top. More media attention for the Dems than money can buy.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>Those who have claimed &#8211; for the past year or more &#8211; that Bush is undefeatable were\/are wrong.<\/b> If you have any doubt, you must not have seen his State of the Union address. He&#8217;s in big big trouble, as long as the Dems don&#8217;t screw it up. Nominating Kerry <i>might<\/i> be a screw up. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>John Edwards will be the VEEP nominee to either Dean or Kerry<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>+ <b>Kerry (most likely)<\/b> <b>wins NH, but not by much.<\/b> But it&#8217;s enough to make him the new &quot;front runner&quot; and begin to receive the wrath of FOX and RUSH. Which is great for Dean.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, David Kay has resigned his commission as top US WMD Seeker in Iraq. And has found a resounding nothing. Not good for Bush.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you were wondering what all we actually <i>were<\/i> fighting for in Iraq, here&#8217;s a picture of the <b>next leader of Iraq<\/b> &#8211; as soon as they are <i>allowed<\/i> the <i>freedom<\/i> of elections:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Sistani.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"88\"><br \/>\n <i>Ayatollah Sistani,<br \/>Next Leader of Iraq<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Look like any one you know?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Khamenei.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"88\"><br \/>\n<i>Ayatollah Khomeini,<br \/>Former Leader of Iran<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I guess we really thought <i>this<\/i> one through, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACTS: + I was right about Howard Dean&#8217;s rant. It&#8217;s kept him in the news, and the fact that he placed a disappointing 3rd place in Iowa out of the news. + Nobody was &quot;frightened by Howard Dean&quot; in that rant other than the Media who saw a story (&quot;See! He&#8217;s unstable!&quot; &#8211; which, of [&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":[8,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","category-iraq-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","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=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}