{"id":433,"date":"2007-07-19T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T13:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2007-07-19T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T13:28:36","slug":"woodrow-wilson-did-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"Woodrow Wilson did it too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chi-oped0719goldbergjul19,0,751068.story?coll=chi-newsopinioncommentary-hed\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a> one long exercise in the tu quoque (among much else):<\/p>\n<p>>At a candidate forum for trial lawyers in Chicago on Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton proclaimed that the Bush administration is &#8220;the most radical presidency we have ever had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>><strong>This is, quite simply, absurd<\/strong>. But such boob-bait for the Bush bashers is common today in Democratic circles, just as similar right-wing rhetoric about Bill Clinton was par for the course a decade ago. The culture war, it seems, has distorted how we view politics more than we realize. Trust in government is at historic lows, but faith in one&#8217;s own &#8220;team&#8221; remains remarkably durable. (President Bush&#8217;s job-approval rating among Republicans is 80 percent, according to the polling company Rasmussen Reports.)<\/p>\n<p>Then he goes on to criticize Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is defending Woodrow Wilson.  And whether Bill Clinton pardoned convicted felons has nothing to do with whether Scooter Libby <strong>deserved<\/strong> a pardon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Jonah Goldberg one long exercise in the tu quoque (among much else): >At a candidate forum for trial lawyers in Chicago on Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton proclaimed that the Bush administration is &#8220;the most radical presidency we have ever had.&#8221; >This is, quite simply, absurd. But such boob-bait for the Bush bashers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woodrow Wilson did it too<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tu-quoque","category-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}