{"id":1556,"date":"2009-03-11T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2009-03-11T09:39:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T13:39:11","slug":"they-hope-the-president-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"They Hope the President Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By &quot;they&quot; I meant American Democrats.&#160; Not the establishment; the rank and file.&#160; And by &quot;President&quot;, I meant George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/projects\/pdf\/FOX_230_release_web.pdf\">In a poll<\/a> (PDF file) conducted in August of 2006, one of the questions was this:<\/p>\n<p>10.&#160; Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to succeed or not? <\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" width=\"297\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"108\">&#160;<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"53\">Yes<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">No<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"83\">Don&#8217;t know<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"111\">8-9 Aug 06<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"53\">63%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">32<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"82\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"112\">Democrats<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"53\">40%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">51<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"82\">9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"112\">Republicans<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"53\">90%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">7<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"82\">2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"112\">Independents<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"53\">63%<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"51\">34<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"82\">3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/patterico.com\/2009\/03\/08\/democrats-have-no-right-to-be-snooty-about-rush-not-wanting-the-president-to-succeed\/\">Patterico<\/a>, who notes that we were in the thick of a war whose outcome was uncertain.&#160; When Democrats try to take the moral or patriotic high ground regarding what one man, Rush Limbaugh, said, just remind them what <em>a majority of all of them<\/em> said just 2 1\/2 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By &quot;they&quot; I meant American Democrats.&#160; Not the establishment; the rank and file.&#160; And by &quot;President&quot;, I meant George W. Bush. In a poll (PDF file) conducted in August of 2006, one of the questions was this: 10.&#160; Regardless of how you voted in the presidential election, would you say you want President Bush to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-doug","category-politics","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}