{"id":428,"date":"2004-07-11T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/he-is-a-uniter-after-all\/"},"modified":"2004-07-11T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-11T18:01:00","slug":"he-is-a-uniter-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/11\/he-is-a-uniter-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"He is a uniter, after all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a theoretical physicist, you come to cherish those very few moments when a new idea makes everything snap into place.  In politics it almost never happens, so we should be even more grateful.  One such idea has been hit upon by <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmckay.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_07_01_johnmckay_archive.html#108949937587643354\">John McKay&#8217;s wife<\/a>:  George W. Bush doesn&#8217;t want to be President any more.  He&#8217;d be just as happy to lose.  It all makes sense now.  He never really wanted to be President in the first place; he only ran because <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1075950,00.html\">God told him to<\/a>.  But he was never happy about it; more like a reluctant Orestes being egged on by Apollo to do all those nasty things.<\/p>\n<p>The man has suffered enough for the greater good.  He&#8217;d be happier on his pickup truck back in Crawford.  It&#8217;s really the least we can do for him, after all he&#8217;s done for us.<\/p>\n<p>p.s.  I do have one question.  Why is considered <a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=1994\">humble<\/a> to think that you&#8217;ve been chosen by God?  Doesn&#8217;t that mean that you think God has chosen you personally, rather than somebody else?  It&#8217;s a funny approach to humility.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a theoretical physicist, you come to cherish those very few moments when a new idea makes everything snap into place. In politics it almost never happens, so we should be even more grateful. One such idea has been hit upon by John McKay&#8217;s wife: George W. Bush doesn&#8217;t want to be President any more. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}