Some time ago – in fact just over eight years ago, Governor George W. Bush started describing himself as a \u201ccompassionate conservative\u201d.\u00a0 Here’s the question: what was so compassionate about this president?\u00a0 Did he actually help the poorest members of society?\u00a0 Did he help those who were most disenfranchised?\u00a0 I see no evidence of his doing so.\u00a0 Perhaps it is unfair to judge him in this light given that he now seemingly defines his presidency as how he responded to the attacks on September 11th.\u00a0 Or perhaps we should simply not speak ill of the lame duck, not because it’s in bad taste but simply because it is not worth our time.\u00a0 But feel free if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some time ago – in fact just over eight years ago, Governor George W. Bush started describing himself as a \u201ccompassionate conservative\u201d.\u00a0 Here’s the question: what was so compassionate about this president?\u00a0 Did he actually help the poorest members of society?\u00a0 Did he help those who were most disenfranchised?\u00a0 I see no evidence of his … Continue reading “Past Political Themes: Compassionate Conservative”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[493,43],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-president-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}