{"id":14456,"date":"2003-12-08T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/ooh-senator-kerry-used-the-f-word\/"},"modified":"2003-12-08T04:11:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:11:00","slug":"ooh-senator-kerry-used-the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/ooh-senator-kerry-used-the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooh, Senator Kerry Used The &#8220;F&#8221; Word!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/features\/nationalaffairs\/featuregen.asp?pid=2454\" target=\"_blank\">recent <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> interview<\/a>, Senator Kerry was fairly frank in his criticism of W&rsquo;s handling of the Iraq war:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><i>Rolling Stone<\/i><\/strong>: Did you feel you were blindsided by Dean&rsquo;s success?<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Sen. Kerry<\/i><\/strong>: Well, not blindsided. I mean, when I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. Did I expect Howard Dean to go off to the left and say, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m against everything&rdquo;? Sure. Did I expect George Bush to fuck it up as badly as he did? I don&rsquo;t think anybody did. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m obviously not against anybody criticizing W ;-), but I&rsquo;m pretty surprised that Senator Kerry was such a pottymouth.  Guess he was trying to establish his street cred with the <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> readers.  Or something.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107085648969851510?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Senator Kerry was fairly frank in his criticism of W&rsquo;s handling of the Iraq war: Rolling Stone: Did you feel you were blindsided by Dean&rsquo;s success? Sen. Kerry: Well, not blindsided. I mean, when I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/12\/08\/ooh-senator-kerry-used-the-f-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ooh, Senator Kerry Used The &#8220;F&#8221; Word!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}