{"id":396,"date":"2003-01-30T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=396"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:42:57","slug":"leave-no-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Leave no child &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Leave no child behind&#8221; was one of the favorite slogans of the Bush 2000 campaign.  They &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensdefense.org\/\" Target=\"Offsite\">Children&#8217;s Defense Fund<\/a>, who weren&#8217;t very happy about it, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfbg.com\/nader\/151.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">report<\/a> from Ralph Nader. Since his election, Bush watchers have been pointing out the huge discrepancy between the slogan and the actual policies of the Bush administration. Several have suggested that &#8220;leave no millionaire behind&#8221; would be more accurate. As I read reports like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/interna.asp?idnews=15571\" Target=\"Offsite\">this one<\/a> describing the expected impact of US military action on Iraqi children, it occurs to me that a more appropriate mantra for W&#8217;s Warlords might be &#8220;Leave no child alive&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Leave no child behind&#8221; was one of the favorite slogans of the Bush 2000 campaign. They &#8220;borrowed&#8221; it from the Children&#8217;s Defense Fund, who weren&#8217;t very happy about it, according to a report from Ralph Nader. Since his election, Bush watchers have been pointing out the huge discrepancy between the slogan and the actual policies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=396\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leave no child &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}