{"id":255,"date":"2004-09-30T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/politics\/electoral\/bush_v_kerry.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"bush_v_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/09\/30\/bush_v_kerry","title":{"rendered":"Bush v. Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> We&#8217;re about 45 minutes in to the presidential debate now. I think the smartest thing Kerry is doing is goading Bush to feel he has to do a reply outside the structure of the debate, which gives Kerry a chance to do an additional response. The more the debate resembles a real debate with back-and-forth, the better it is for Kerry. At this point, I think Kerry&#8217;s aggressive attack strategy is working. Although Bush is &#8220;staying on message,&#8221; it feels like it&#8217;s a defensive message. I&#8217;ve been looking around the web for other &#8220;real time&#8221; commentary but no luck so far. <\/p>\n<p> (update: of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a> is giving a real-time commentary, with a pretty different take on things; he&#8217;s also linking to other real-time bloggers, worth following) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re about 45 minutes in to the presidential debate now. I think the smartest thing Kerry is doing is goading Bush to feel he has to do a reply outside the structure of the debate, which gives Kerry a chance to do an additional response. The more the debate resembles a real debate with back-and-forth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}