{"id":10954,"date":"2007-05-07T20:46:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/05\/07\/dance-george-dance.html"},"modified":"2007-05-07T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T03:46:46","slug":"dance_george_dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/dance_george_dance.html","title":{"rendered":"Dance, George, dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, plenty to criticize Dubya for, but … yeah, the whole Bush dancing with native performers for Malaria Awareness Week<\/a> (as used as an entire genre of Daily Show <\/em>clips) was kinda goofy but …<\/p>\n

Imagine the pictures of “Dubya standing like a stiff whilst dancers dance about him.”  Or imagine “Bush refuses to join in festive dancing, huddles in Oval Office” headlines.<\/p>\n

I mean, it’s like Michael Dukakis in the tank<\/a>.  Holy moley, I’d<\/em> blow a presidential campaign to have a chance to chance to drive a tank around …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, plenty to criticize Dubya for, but … yeah, the whole Bush dancing with native performers for Malaria Awareness Week (as used as an entire genre of Daily Show clips)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11740,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/the_simple_president.html","url_meta":{"origin":10954,"position":0},"title":"The “Simple” President","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Feb-08 6:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure that's not quite what Dubya meant, but it's amusing to hear his comment in a Fox News interview: \"You're the pundit. 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On behalf of our producers Kathleen Glynn and...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12970,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/28\/bush_or_batman.html","url_meta":{"origin":10954,"position":4},"title":"Bush or Batman","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Aug-08 11:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Was it Dubya who said it, or the (Adam West) Batman? \u00a0 C'mon, how can we not have four more years of this? 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