{"id":477,"date":"2008-11-01T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=477"},"modified":"2008-11-01T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T10:21:57","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=477","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Missing President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been wondering what had happened to President Bush.\u00a0 Here is a man who is clearly self-aware enough to not engage in campaigning, knowing that not only does he have no coat tails, but that his presence actually does harm in some places.\u00a0 This is vaguely reminiscient of what happened to President Clinton at the end of his term.\u00a0 At the time there was a lot of talk about how VP Gore did not use the president effectively.\u00a0 That same conversation is now occuring with regard to Mssrs McCain and Bush, as the New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/31\/us\/politics\/31web-stolberg.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1225534652-dvDvzZVnQJFSnqvtZ8pRCQ\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been wondering what had happened to President Bush.\u00a0 Here is a man who is clearly self-aware enough to not engage in campaigning, knowing that not only does he have no coat tails, but that his presence actually does harm in some places.\u00a0 This is vaguely reminiscient of what happened to President Clinton at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Case of the Missing President&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","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=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}