{"id":605,"date":"2008-01-13T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2008\/01\/13\/presidential-delusions\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T03:48:12","slug":"presidential-delusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/presidential-delusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential Delusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Messiah in the Middle East is George W. Bush, who appears convinced that he can save the Israelis and the Palestinians.&nbsp; The Washington Post today has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/12\/AR2008011202343.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">interesting editorial<\/a> on his mission.&nbsp; It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Thursday in Jerusalem, President Bush completed a full circle on the Middle East from his starting point as president. In 2001 he disparaged and quickly abandoned President Bill Clinton&#8217;s personal attempt to broker a final peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians during his final months in office. Seven years later, ending his first visit to Israel as president, Mr. Bush set a goal of finishing that peace treaty during his own final months; said he would personally involve himself in pressuring both sides; and, like Mr. Clinton before him, laid out his own parameters for a deal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anybody want to bet me what Obama is doing in 2016?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Messiah in the Middle East is George W. Bush, who appears convinced that he can save the Israelis and the Palestinians.&nbsp; The Washington Post today has an interesting editorial on his mission.&nbsp; It begins: On Thursday in Jerusalem, President Bush completed a full circle on the Middle East from his starting point as\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/presidential-delusions\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}