{"id":537,"date":"2004-07-30T08:50:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2004-07-30T08:50:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T12:50:48","slug":"the-race-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"The Race Has Begun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image536\" alt=\"race.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/race.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John Kerry gave the speech last night which many hope will push him over the top with the &#8216;swing voter&#8217;. Here are some of the direct challenges to the President:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation &#8211; not the Saudi royal family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have it in our power to change the world, but only if we&#8217;re true to our ideals &#8211; and that starts by telling the truth to the American people, as President, that is my first pledge to you tonight. As president, I will restore trust and credibility to the White House.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be a commander in chief who will never mislead us into war. I will have a vice president who will not conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental laws. I will have a secretary of defense who will listen to the advice of the military leaders. And I will appoint an attorney general who upholds the Constitution of the United States.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny thing happened yesterday about 4 hours before John Kerry was supposed          to give his speech; the administration announced the capture of a High          Level Al-Quieda Operative in Pakistan. I guess timing is everything. The          funny thing is in May <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20040719&#038;s=aaj071904\">The          New Republic<\/a> published an article claiming the Administration was          planning this exact move. TNR claimed the Senior members of the Bush Administration          were pressuring Pakistani leader Musharraf to &#8216;capture&#8217; and handover a          High Level Terrorist right around or on the week of the Democratic National          Convention. Well everything seemed to work out fine when like clockwork          at around 5:30PM EST news outlets across the nation began reporting the          capture of a major Al-Queida suspect(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/29\/pakistan.alqaeda.capture\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>&#038;          <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5550599\/\">MSNBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In another example of the politics of fear the FBI has issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5550493\/\">Terror          Warning<\/a> for the Western States. Maybe John Kerry was planning on campaigning          out West this week.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"posted\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry gave the speech last night which many hope will push him over the top with the &#8216;swing voter&#8217;. Here are some of the direct challenges to the President: &#8220;I want an America that relies on its own ingenuity and innovation &#8211; not the Saudi royal family.&#8221; &#8220;We have it in our power to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-8F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}