{"id":543,"date":"2004-03-05T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/free-advice\/"},"modified":"2004-03-05T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T18:48:00","slug":"free-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/05\/free-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Free advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good that the press isn&#8217;t letting Bush just get away with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&#038;storyID=470461\u00a7ion=news\"> using images of the World Trade Center in campaign ads<\/a>.  Kerry cannot let Bush be the presumptive anti-terror candidate.  Next time Kerry gets asked about those ads in an interview or debate, he should say something like this:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/>I think it reveals something about the President and his campaign.  Personally, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s appropriate to use images of Ground Zero for political gain.  Of course we should have a debate about how best to combat terror and preserve our national security, but our memories of the September 11th tragedies should be treated with respect.  This president <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;c\">won&#8217;t spare more than one hour<\/a> of his time to talk with the commission investigating what went wrong on 9\/11; to me, that says he&#8217;s just not willing to do what it takes to make sure a tragedy like this never happens again.<br \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the Kerry campaign is overjoyed to get such insightful advice for free over the web.  Here at Preposterous, we toil selflessly for the greater good.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good that the press isn&#8217;t letting Bush just get away with using images of the World Trade Center in campaign ads. Kerry cannot let Bush be the presumptive anti-terror candidate. Next time Kerry gets asked about those ads in an interview or debate, he should say something like this: I think it reveals something [&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-543","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\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}