{"id":75,"date":"2010-09-09T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=75"},"modified":"2011-06-28T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:55:00","slug":"olive-branch-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Olive Branch (part two)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. President, thank you.\u00a0 You\u2019ve honored these guys [U.S. troops in Iraq]. You\u2019ve honored these women. You\u2019ve honored these troops. And I\u2019ve known you your entire eight years as president. I\u2019ve never known a time when you didn\u2019t care about \u2014 we disagreed on policy \u2014 but you deserve a lot of credit, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

\n

– Vice President Biden,
\nspeaking to former President Bush
\n(the one whose unprovoked war in Iraq
\nhas killed 4,400 young Americans)
\non the Colbert Report
\nSeptember 8, 2010<\/p>\n

One time that the Republicans aren\u2019t ridiculing Biden.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. President, thank you.\u00a0 You\u2019ve honored these guys [U.S. troops in Iraq]. You\u2019ve honored these women. You\u2019ve honored these troops. And I\u2019ve known you your entire eight years as president. I\u2019ve never known a time when you didn\u2019t care about … Continue reading →<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}