{"id":3504,"date":"2008-05-15T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T13:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/blair-recalls-despair-at-bushs-victory\/3504\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T13:38:51","slug":"blair-recalls-despair-at-bushs-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/blair-recalls-despair-at-bushs-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair recalls despair at Bush&#8217;s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/blair-recalls.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"blair-recalls.jpg\" title=\"blair-recalls.jpg\" \/>Press TV<\/a> | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s wife says they watched in distress as George Bush won the US presidential election in 2000. In an autobiography entitled &#8220;Speaking For Myself,&#8221; which was published Wednesday, Cherie Blair wrote &#8220;I think it&#8217;s fair to say that our hearts sank when the result was finally ratified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George is actually a very funny, charming man with a quirky sense of humor,&#8221; said the autobiography which is being serialized in The Times of London newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason he gets a bad press, he says, is &#8216;because I talk Texan&#8217;,&#8221; added Blair who described the US first lady, Laura, as &#8216;a very warm, genuine person&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair faced widespread criticism inside and outside of Britain because of his relationship with Bush, namely over his government&#8217;s support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Following the decision, critics called the British prime minister &#8216;Bush&#8217;s poodle&#8217; as he suffered a nosedive in his popularity ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press TV | Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair&#8217;s wife says they watched in distress as George Bush won the US presidential election in 2000. In an autobiography entitled &#8220;Speaking For Myself,&#8221; which was published Wednesday, Cherie Blair wrote &#8220;I think it&#8217;s fair to say that our hearts sank when the result was finally ratified.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1615],"tags":[27,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-3504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-bush","9":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}