{"id":2042,"date":"2012-08-03T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T03:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2012-08-03T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T03:19:39","slug":"rewind-the-king-of-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2042","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: The King of Gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt the Twit (or Spiff as we call him) Romney&#8217;s recent gaffes in Europe remind us of another Republican who goofed up regularly on the world stage. Ol&#8217; Dubya was always good for a laugh and a master at sticking his feet in his mouth, sometimes both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our March 17, 2006 issue that depicts one of Dubya&#8217;s more dubious moments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2043\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2043\" title=\"bushsingh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushsingh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushsingh.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushsingh-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush made a serious diplomatic gaffe on his recent trip to India when he wore a feather headdress to address the Indian people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt the Twit (or Spiff as we call him) Romney&#8217;s recent gaffes in Europe remind us of another Republican who goofed up regularly on the world stage. Ol&#8217; Dubya was always good for a laugh and a master at sticking his feet in his mouth, sometimes both at the same time. Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: The King of Gaffes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49,8,3],"tags":[634,50,22,52,633,9,632,635,21,98,19,150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}