{"id":2531,"date":"2004-08-23T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/23\/shifty-swifty\/"},"modified":"2004-08-23T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T03:19:04","slug":"shifty-swifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/23\/shifty-swifty\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifty Swifty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3704'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kerdistort.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"254\" align=\"left\"> John<br \/>\n        Kerry is finding that his image with the American people, so carefully<br \/>\n        crafted during the Democratic National Convention and laboriously propagated<br \/>\n        ever since, is being distorted by the Shifty Swifty&#8217;s smear campaign.<br \/>\n        The latest poll figures, both internal and public, show an erosion of<br \/>\n        support among swing voters and vets, two key support groups for Kerry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Serves him right. He was the one who decided to base his<br \/>\n        campaign on Vietnam, and he should have expected something like this.<br \/>\n        It seems that early on, George Bush made a public declaration that he<br \/>\n        had no intention of challenging Kerry&#8217;s war record &#8211; AND KERRY BELIEVED<br \/>\n        HIM! He let his guard down! As Kerry of all people should know, one NEVER<br \/>\n        lets one&#8217;s guard down in a fight with a Yale man. Quite frankly, we are<br \/>\n        beginning to wonder if the the man is up to the task. Still, there is<br \/>\n        plenty of time left for creative politics.&nbsp; In chess, the player<br \/>\n        who makes the first move wins a little over half the time.&nbsp; The<br \/>\n        player who makes the last move ALWAYS wins.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Kerry Blames Bush from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/23\/politics\/campaign\/23swift.html?ex=1250913600&amp;en=d6594423664c7460&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">the<br \/>\n          New York Times<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsisfree.com\/iclick\/i,48421315,1469,f\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry is finding that his image with the American people, so carefully crafted during the Democratic National Convention and laboriously propagated ever since, is being distorted by the Shifty Swifty&#8217;s smear campaign. The latest poll figures, both internal and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/23\/shifty-swifty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}