{"id":452,"date":"2003-12-11T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/12\/a_shot_in_the_foot\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T17:01:36","slug":"a_shot_in_the_foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/12\/a_shot_in_the_foot.html","title":{"rendered":"A SHOT IN THE FOOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Let us now praise the presidential genius of our Maximum Leader. Here&#8217;s a commander in<br \/>\nchief who also plays chief doofus (see<FONT\ncolor=#003399><STRONG><EM>&nbsp;<\/EM><\/STRONG><A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20031207.shtml#63007\"><STRONG><EM><\nFONT color=#003399>Hu&#8217;s on first<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A><FONT\ncolor=#000000>)<\/FONT><STRONG><EM> <\/EM><\/STRONG><\/FONT>of his own<br \/>\nadministration. This has been evident since he took over the White House. But this morning&#8217;s <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/11\/international\/middleeast\/11PREX.html?hp\"><B><EM\n><FONT color=#003399>front-page story<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> nicely illustrates the point:<br \/>\n&#8220;President Bush found himself in the awkward position on Wednesday of calling the leaders of<br \/>\nFrance, Germany and Russia to ask them to forgive Iraq&#8217;s debts, just a day after the Pentagon<br \/>\nexcluded those countries and others from $18 billion in American-financed Iraqi reconstruction<br \/>\nprojects.&#8221;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Chalk it up to the fact that the right hand doesn&#8217;t know what&nbsp;the right hand is<br \/>\ndoing.&nbsp;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us now praise the presidential genius of our Maximum Leader. Here&#8217;s a commander in chief who also plays chief doofus (see&nbsp;< FONT color=#003399>Hu&#8217;s on first) of his own administration. This has been evident since he took over the White House. But this morning&#8217;s front-page story nicely illustrates the point: &#8220;President Bush found himself in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-7i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}