{"id":92,"date":"2003-09-17T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T07:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:48:29","slug":"brer-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2003\/09\/brer-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Br&#8217;er Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p>  <em> The Weekly Standard  <\/em> has been playing Br\u2019er Rabbit with the Democrats, publishing several hand-wringing articles worrying over threat posed by Howard Dean to the Bush reelection. \u201cPlease, Oh, Please, NOT Howard DEAN! ANYBODY, anybody but Howard DEAN!\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The entrance of Wesley Clark into the mix changes the dynamics of the race. Bush won\u2019t be able to coast on national security and defense issues the way he could with Dean and most of the other Democratic candidates. But the last general to run for President didn\u2019t make the transition to politician very effectively. Alexander Haig was way too intense, and made everybody watching him nervous. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weekly Standard has been playing Br\u2019er Rabbit with the Democrats, publishing several hand-wringing articles worrying over threat posed by Howard Dean to the Bush reelection. \u201cPlease, Oh, Please, NOT Howard DEAN! ANYBODY, anybody but Howard DEAN!\u201d The entrance of Wesley Clark into the mix changes the dynamics of the race. 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