{"id":2908,"date":"2004-10-09T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T18:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/howard-kicks-ass-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2004-10-09T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T18:51:50","slug":"howard-kicks-ass-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/09\/howard-kicks-ass-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard kicks ass in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mossback.org\/pitchers\/howard.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Good on ya, Aussies! Prime Minister Michael Howard has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/elections\/federal\/2004\/results\/\">won his fourth term <\/a>in an election seen as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200410\/s1216569.htm\">a referendum on Australian participation <\/a>in the liberation of Iraq. Howard&#8217;s party not only won, they increased their share of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a harbinger of things to come in the US? I damn sure hope so. It&#8217;s certainly a defeat for Kerry, whose sister lives in Australia where she heads an anti-Howard organization.<\/p>\n<p>This is one country that won&#8217;t be leaving the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/timblair.spleenville.com\/\">Tim Blair&#8217;s<\/a> for all the details.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good on ya, Aussies! Prime Minister Michael Howard has won his fourth term in an election seen as a referendum on Australian participation in the liberation of Iraq. Howard&#8217;s party not only won, they increased their share of the vote. Is this a harbinger of things to come in the US? I damn sure hope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/09\/howard-kicks-ass-in-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Howard kicks ass in Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-KU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}