{"id":174,"date":"2005-07-04T19:26:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T23:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=174"},"modified":"2005-07-04T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T23:26:53","slug":"george-w-bush-awol-from-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/george-w-bush-awol-from-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"George W. Bush AWOL from poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He gave to us no inaugural poem George W<br \/>\nnor a poet to bedeck the whitehouse steps<br \/>\nno Frost or Angelou or Eliseuson<br \/>\nHe gave to us pretended patriots<br \/>\ndupe most of the people all of the time<br \/>\nfounding fathers were mortal men and proved it<br \/>\nwhen they amended their own constitution<br \/>\namendments  allowing their enlightenment<br \/>\nwas of their times and allowed<br \/>\nprogressive enlightenment possible<br \/>\nfoundations of Freedom<br \/>\nwhat presidential papers were sealed by George W. Bush?<br \/>\nClinton gives himself a free pass declaring he had no papers<br \/>\nneeding sealing.<br \/>\nUnder the new order, papers from a former administration<br \/>\ncan remain sealed even if the former president does not<br \/>\nthink they are privileged, if the sitting president thinks<br \/>\nthey are privileged. Alberto Gonzales said,<br \/>\n&#8220;It will not be driven by politics or what looks good.<br \/>\nIt will be driven by what is allowed under the Constitution.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Which sounds fine in theory, but<br \/>\nonce the order is in effect,<br \/>\nhow would anyone know<br \/>\nwhat was driving a particular decision?<br \/>\nHe asks us to trust him<br \/>\nto be responsible, honest and impartial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As long as Gods are males<br \/>\nmales will be Gods.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; C-SPAN caller 4 July 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He gave to us no inaugural poem George W nor a poet to bedeck the whitehouse steps no Frost or Angelou or Eliseuson He gave to us pretended patriots dupe most of the people all of the time founding fathers were mortal men and proved it when they amended their own constitution amendments allowing their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/george-w-bush-awol-from-poetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George W. Bush AWOL from poetry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}