{"id":372,"date":"2009-01-16T23:47:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/farewell-president-bush.html"},"modified":"2009-01-16T23:47:16","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T23:47:16","slug":"farewell-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/01\/farewell-president-bush.html","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, President Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Nation-Building, <a href=\"http:\/\/dean2004.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/what-bush-did-right.html\">I give kudos to the President<\/a> for what he did right. In a nutshell: no attacks on US soil, a war on terror instead of Islam, and Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Still, I think Obama should check the White House keyboards for missing O keys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Nation-Building, I give kudos to the President for what he did right. 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