{"id":750,"date":"2006-10-02T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:18:49","slug":"bush-as-harding-and-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"Bush as Harding and Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"

After his first two books on the subject of the Iraq War all but gave the Bush Administration a pass on its handling of Iraq Bob Woodward<\/a> has finally taken the gloves off to portray the Prez as ineffectual.<\/p>\n

After\u00c2\u00a0the Roaring Twenties had passed two of its three Republican Presidents got badly tarred by History. Warren Harding was tagged as a man who played poker while his cronies stole the country blind. Appropos\u00c2\u00a0of this I just read Will Rogers who reported that when\u00c2\u00a0the comic\u00c2\u00a0asked President Harding to tell him the best political jokes he knew\u00c2\u00a0Harding replied that\u00c2\u00a0he’d hired them all for his Administration.<\/p>\n

Herbert Hoover was\u00c2\u00a0the reknowned industrialist and\u00c2\u00a0philanthropist who as the Depression pushed unemployment towards 20% kept telling Americans that prosperity was just around corner (think – stay the course).<\/p>\n

It’s my opinion\u00c2\u00a0that George Bush has been the sorriest President\u00c2\u00a0since Andrew Johnson. He thought he was acting like Ronald Reagan but his real models were Harding and Hoover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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