{"id":2184,"date":"2006-02-03T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/presidential-off-the-cuff-remark-or-bold-lie\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T03:19:10","slug":"presidential-off-the-cuff-remark-or-bold-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/presidential-off-the-cuff-remark-or-bold-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"presidential off-the-cuff remark, or bold lie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today&#8217;s example of &#8220;it sounds good when he says it&#8221; comes to you from the state of the union address&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/news\/nation\/13767738.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=krwashington_nation\">Administration backs off Bush&#8217;s vow to reduce Mideast oil imports<\/a> [knight ridder,  2006.02.01]<\/div>\n<p>One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America&#8217;s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said Wednesday that the president didn&#8217;t mean it literally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>we can apparently either believe that the president was merely riffing on a theme, and the state of the union address was not a prepared speech&#8230; or we can believe that he said what he said while the public was paying attention, with the full intent and instruction to staff to &#8220;take it back&#8221; once the public went back to their lives.<\/p>\n<p>then again, it seems not many people were really paying attention to the state of the union address this time around, so&#8230; maybe i&#8217;m just being cynical.<\/p>\n<p>if a promise is made in the congress, and nobody hears it, is it a promise?  not so much a promise&#8230; but a &#8220;goal&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/stateoftheunion\/2006\/\" class=\"broken_link\">2006 state of the union<\/a> [2006.01.31]<\/div>\n<p>Breakthroughs on this and other new technologies will help us reach another great goal:  to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today&#8217;s example of &#8220;it sounds good when he says it&#8221; comes to you from the state of the union address&#8230; Administration backs off Bush&#8217;s vow to reduce Mideast oil imports [knight ridder, 2006.02.01] One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America&#8217;s dependence on Middle East oil by cutting imports from there 75 percent by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}