{"id":554,"date":"2006-06-22T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/a_rhetorical_gi\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T14:13:00","slug":"a_rhetorical_gi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/a_rhetorical_gi\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rhetorical Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senators Carl Levin (Mich.) and John Kerry (Mass.) have competing resolutions on Iraq, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/20\/AR2006062001343.html\">neither has apparently taken the Political Communications 101 course<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cut and run, cut and run, cut and run, cut and run &#8212; that&#8217;s their phrase,&#8221; he told Don Imus. &#8220;My plan is not cut and run. Their plan is lie and die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wording is very clear: It&#8217;s not a cut-and-run strategy,&#8221; Levin protested. &#8220;Our amendment is not in any sense a cut-and-run amendment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never, ever repeat your opponents\u2019 charges.  It only reinforces them.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Senators Carl Levin (Mich.) and John Kerry (Mass.) have competing resolutions on Iraq, but neither has apparently taken the Political Communications 101 course. &#8220;Cut and run, cut and run, cut and run, cut and run &#8212; that&#8217;s their phrase,&#8221; he told Don Imus. &#8220;My plan is not cut and run. Their plan is lie&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2006\/06\/22\/a_rhetorical_gi\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}