{"id":625,"date":"2004-04-13T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T17:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/04\/to_the_max_mission_not_accompl\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T17:52:34","slug":"to_the_max_mission_not_accompl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/04\/to_the_max_mission_not_accompl.html","title":{"rendered":"TO THE MAX: MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Whatever else there is to say, the guy is simply out of his league. He wasn&#8217;t elected to the<br \/>\npresidency in the first place. He didn&#8217;t deserve it in the second place. He&#8217;s proved himself<br \/>\nincompetent in the third place. <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/04\/13\/bush.conference\/index.html\"><B><EM><br \/>\n<FONT color=#003399>&#8220;I don&#8217;t plan on losing my job,&#8221;<\/FONT><\/EM> <\/B><\/A>he said<br \/>\ntonight, during his news conference (only the third in prime time&nbsp;since he&nbsp;took<br \/>\noffice). &#8220;I plan on telling the American people that I&#8217;ve got a plan to win the war on terror.&#8221; He&#8217;s<br \/>\n<EM>still<\/EM>&nbsp;planning on telling&nbsp;us the plan? We&#8217;re still waiting. As to his job,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve got news for him: He&#8217;s headed for the unemployment line. He can join the crowd.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Postscript:<\/STRONG> A bemused reader,&nbsp;who calls himself<br \/>\nWagner&nbsp;Redux,&nbsp;writes: &#8220;<FONT size=2>Don&#8217;t be so certain. This little fucker will be<br \/>\ncontent with nothing less than <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.metopera.org\/synopses\/gotterdam.html\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Gotterdammerung<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> &#8212; or however the hell the Fritzies<br \/>\nspell it &#8212; with music provided by selected cuts from <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005REPG\/ref=m_art_li_1\/103-914083\n6-8675042?v=glance&#038;s=music\"><B><EM><FONT color=#003399>The King<br \/>\nSisters<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>.&#8221;<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever else there is to say, the guy is simply out of his league. He wasn&#8217;t elected to the presidency in the first place. He didn&#8217;t deserve it in the second place. He&#8217;s proved himself incompetent in the third place. &#8220;I don&#8217;t plan on losing my job,&#8221; he said tonight, during his news conference (only [&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-625","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-a5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}