{"id":1420,"date":"2009-01-20T07:37:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-04-03T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:26:34","slug":"guessing-bushs-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/guessing-bushs-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Guessing Bush&#8217;s Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So President Bush <a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28747121\/'>left a note<\/a> for President-elect Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Continuing a White House ritual, President George W. Bush left a note in the Oval Office for President-elect Barack Obama, wishing him well as he takes the reins of the executive branch.<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Tuesday declined to provide intimate details of the message the two-term Republican left for the incoming Democrat, saying only that Bush wrote it on Monday and left it in the top drawer of his desk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it say?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To help you improve your Convincing Lies Score (for fooling the American people about WMDs in Syria and about your role in tragedy in New York, for instance), I left you my personal lie detector in the broom closet.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let Barack Derangement Syndrome derange you.<\/li>\n<li>I lost my nerve to implement martial law at the last minute and stay on as President. So the job is yours after all. Enjoy!<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget to keep The Masters in mind. Rush might even be your caddy.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s OK for Presidents to go to church. Surely that&#8217;s the least we can do to acknowledge the Almighty who saw fit to put us in this place.<\/li>\n<li>Way to go on the birth certificate deal! (But you really didn&#8217;t have to go to that extreme &#8212; see previous point.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had another one, but I can&#8217;t remember it, so that&#8217;s enough of that. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So President Bush left a note for President-elect Obama: Continuing a White House ritual, President George W. Bush left a note in the Oval Office for President-elect Barack Obama, wishing him well as he takes the reins of the executive branch. The White House on Tuesday declined to provide intimate details of the message the &#8230; <a title=\"Guessing Bush&#8217;s Note\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/guessing-bushs-note\/\" aria-label=\"More on Guessing Bush&#8217;s Note\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[903],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-president"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-mU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}