
{"id":1385,"date":"2008-09-01T08:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2008-09-01T08:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T15:27:44","slug":"let-them-eat-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/let-them-eat-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Let them eat cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center>August 29, 2005 &#8211; Bush and McCain celebrate McCain&#8217;s 69th Birthday<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/08\/images\/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/09\/w-mccain.jpg\" alt=\"President Bush and John McCain eat cake while New Orleans drowns\" \/><\/a><br \/>Attribution: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/08\/images\/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html\" target=\"_blank\" >Whitehouse.gov<\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs Gustav closes in on New Orleans 3 years after Katrina the Republicans have a massive PR problem on their hands. What is it you might ask? It&#8217;s the picture above of the birthday celebration while an American city was drowning. It&#8217;s not at all surprising that having pictures of delegates partying in Minnesota juxtaposed with Gustav and Katrina flashbacks is not the presentation of the National Convention that they would desire.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCouple that with the bone-headed VP choice and the bar set by Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech and McCain finds himself in a very tough spot. Let&#8217;s see how he responds.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electoral-vote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Electoral-vote.com<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 29, 2005 &#8211; Bush and McCain celebrate McCain&#8217;s 69th BirthdayAttribution: Whitehouse.gov As Gustav closes in on New Orleans 3 years after Katrina the Republicans have a massive PR problem on their hands. What is it you might ask? It&#8217;s the picture above of the birthday celebration while an American city was drowning. It&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[196,197,198,195,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}