{"id":198257,"date":"2007-11-25T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/25\/bushs-australian-lapdog-goes-down-to-defeat\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:59:00","slug":"bushs-australian-lapdog-goes-down-to-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/25\/bushs-australian-lapdog-goes-down-to-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Australian Lapdog Goes Down to Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s best friend in the South Pacific, and a race baiting demagogue, John Howard, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/federal-election-2007-news\/kevin-rudd-claims-victory\/2007\/11\/24\/1195753362801.html\">gone down to defeat<\/a> in Australia.  He placed combat troops in Iraq, and endorsed the politics of fear with a zeal that rivals that of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aGXSeHDsgEio&amp;refer=australial\">John Howard will lose his own seat<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbr.co.nz\/home\/column_article.asp?id=19601&amp;cid=39&amp;cname=NBR+Comment\">his party is in opposition in every state and territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian people were sick and tired of a government that was more frightening them than it was in serving then.<\/p>\n<p>Would that we had a parliamentary system here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush&#8217;s best friend in the South Pacific, and a race baiting demagogue, John Howard, has gone down to defeat in Australia. He placed combat troops in Iraq, and endorsed the politics of fear with a zeal that rivals that of Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122. What&#8217;s more, John Howard will lose his own seat, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1112,1063,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-and-new-zealand","category-iraq","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}