{"id":128,"date":"2004-10-14T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T22:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-11-27T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T18:55:14","slug":"the-third-debate-now-with-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"The Third Debate &#8211; Now With Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debates are over, and now the gloves are going to come off. So let me get a lick in before the pros take over.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the debates, the president&#8217;s remarkable improvement, which showed so clearly in his posture, control of facial expression and temper, and ability to think on his feet and express those thoughts, convinces me he&#8217;s been off the sauce since his horrible performance during the first one, back on September 30th.<\/p>\n<p>But the president doesn&#8217;t drink, you say. He gave that up years ago, when he found Jesus and became the caring compassionate man he is today . . . didn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it takes a boozer to know a boozer. And the man who mopped the floor with his own face during the first debate? That man was suffering from what could only have been a hangover.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-846\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-846\" title=\"bush_pretzel\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bush_pretzel.gif\" alt=\"Pretzel face\" width=\"211\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretzel face<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>No, this is not a photo of Debate Dubya. This is a photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/cbbcnews\/hi\/world\/newsid_1759000\/1759093.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Pretzel Dubya<\/a>. Remember that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debates are over, and now the gloves are going to come off. So let me get a lick in before the pros take over. Over the course of the debates, the president&#8217;s remarkable improvement, which showed so clearly in his posture, control of facial expression and temper, and ability to think on his feet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}