{"id":144,"date":"2002-06-27T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2002-06-27T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/election-selections\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T20:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:00:23","slug":"election-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/27\/election-selections\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION SELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>TRUE<\/em><\/strong>: In a major foreign policy speech, &#8220;President&#8221; Bush declares his support for a democratic Palestinian state and calls for the Palestinian people &#8220;to elect new leaders&#8230; not compromised by terror&#8221;. Palestinian officials, expecting a call for an Israeli withdrawal and hearing instead about &#8220;Israel&#8217;s need to defend itself&#8221;, react with alarm and dismay.  Critics of the administration wonder how Bush can call on the Palestinian people to &#8220;practice democracy&#8221; while, in the same breath, declare an intention only to recognize &#8220;a new and different Palestinian leadership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SEMITRUE<\/em><\/strong>: Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, addressing these criticisms, points out that &#8220;this White House is no stranger to controversial changes in management&#8221; and, citing bullet-proof polling results, declares that &#8220;our current administration approval ratings demonstrate that a popular leader need not necessarily be, you know, like <em>actually<\/em> elected&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUE: In a major foreign policy speech, &#8220;President&#8221; Bush declares his support for a democratic Palestinian state and calls for the Palestinian people &#8220;to elect new leaders&#8230; not compromised by terror&#8221;. Palestinian officials, expecting a call for an Israeli withdrawal and hearing instead about &#8220;Israel&#8217;s need to defend itself&#8221;, react with alarm and dismay. Critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire","category-truesemitrue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-2k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}