{"id":834,"date":"2004-10-02T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/10\/last_best_hope\/"},"modified":"2004-10-02T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2004-10-02T18:48:23","slug":"last_best_hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/10\/last_best_hope.html","title":{"rendered":"LAST BEST HOPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It must be something in the air. <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20040901.shtml#88079\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Yours truly wrote<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>&nbsp;here<br \/>\n(Sept. 29): &#8220;If you attack [our prevaricatin&#8217; prez] on everything he&#8217;s been wrong about, you<br \/>\nappear unfocused and you sound diffuse. But if you narrow your attack to only one or two of his<br \/>\nmistakes, you give him a pass on all the others.&#8221; <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/01\/opinion\/01krugman.html?oref=login&#038;hp\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Paul Krugman wrote<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> in The<br \/>\nNew York Times (Oct. 1): &#8220;The sheer scale of Mr. Bush&#8217;s foreign policy failures insulates him<br \/>\nfrom its political consequences: voters aren&#8217;t ready to believe how badly the war in Iraq is going,<br \/>\nlet alone how badly America&#8217;s moral position in the world has deteriorated.&#8221; Now, after the first<br \/>\ndebate, our last best hope is that they&#8217;re getting ready.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be something in the air. Yours truly wrote&nbsp;here (Sept. 29): &#8220;If you attack [our prevaricatin&#8217; prez] on everything he&#8217;s been wrong about, you appear unfocused and you sound diffuse. But if you narrow your attack to only one or two of his mistakes, you give him a pass on all the others.&#8221; Paul [&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-834","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-ds","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}