{"id":322,"date":"2003-12-31T23:58:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T03:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-10-25T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T04:32:34","slug":"bushsaddam-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Bush\/Saddam &#8217;04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324 alignleft\" title=\"saddamrummyhandshake\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/saddamrummyhandshake1.jpg\" alt=\"Once and future Defense Secretary meets once and future GOP Presidential running mate\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/saddamrummyhandshake1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/saddamrummyhandshake1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>The George II re-selection campaign is kicking off with a bombshell (so to speak) <\/strong>&#8212; they&#8217;re ditching Dick Cheney for a guy who knows how to use both sides of his face: that long-time Washington insider himself, hanger-out with Don &#8220;Rummy&#8221; Rumsfeld \u2013 Saddam &#8220;Saddam&#8221; Hussein! The media, of course, is always on the lookout for some meager shred of good news out of Iraq; NBC presented us with a free GOP political ad in the form of their &#8220;Saddam Captured Marathon&#8221; spanning the entirety of NBC&#8217;s Sunday morning blabfest programming.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325\" title=\"bushsaddam04_550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bushsaddam04_550w.jpg\" alt=\"bushsaddam04_550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"975\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bushsaddam04_550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bushsaddam04_550w-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bushsaddam04_550w-282x499.jpg 282w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bushsaddam04_550w-338x600.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Junior may have been abjectly stupid, but once in a while had those rare flashes of brilliance &#8212; like using the head of state of an &#8220;enemy&#8221; nation as his unofficial running mate, just as his old man tried to do in &#8217;92. Of course, it didn&#8217;t hurt that the Donkeycrats &#8212; weak-assed and dickless, as usual &#8212; ran a phone-in campaign with a nominee that made Lurch (from the &#8220;Addams Family&#8221;) look positively scintillating by comparison, thereby cementing the Donkeycrats&#8217; reputation for being craven dive artists.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Bush\/Saddam '04\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/bushsaddam04\/bushsaddam04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 774k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The George II re-selection campaign is kicking off with a bombshell (so to speak) &#8212; they&#8217;re ditching Dick Cheney for a guy who knows how to use both sides of his face: that long-time Washington insider himself, hanger-out with Don &#8220;Rummy&#8221; Rumsfeld \u2013 Saddam &#8220;Saddam&#8221; Hussein! The media, of course, is always on the lookout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,8,9],"tags":[12,58,1456,106,105],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-elections","category-iraq","category-right-wingnuts","category-war-and-peace","tag-bush","tag-election","tag-iraq","tag-rumsfeld","tag-saddam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}