{"id":2918,"date":"2004-10-14T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/foreign-leaders-prefer-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-10-14T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T20:20:27","slug":"foreign-leaders-prefer-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/14\/foreign-leaders-prefer-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign leaders prefer Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere’s an endorsement from prominent foreign leader Koizumi of Japan:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 21:37 JST
\nTOKYO ? Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he wants George W Bush to retain the U.S. presidency in the country’s upcoming election.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to interfere with another country’s election but since I’m well-acquainted with President Bush, I want him to carry on,” Koizumi told reporters at his office when asked about Democratic rival Sen John Kerry’s [alleged] lead in [some flakey] poll. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Koizumi is a stand-up guy.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an endorsement from prominent foreign leader Koizumi of Japan: Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 21:37 JST TOKYO ? Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he wants George W Bush to retain the U.S. presidency in the country’s upcoming election. “I don’t want to interfere with another country’s election but since I’m well-acquainted with President … Continue reading “Foreign leaders prefer Bush”<\/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-2918","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-L4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","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=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}