{"id":241,"date":"2004-04-27T23:11:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T07:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/arresting-development\/"},"modified":"2004-04-27T23:11:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T07:11:25","slug":"arresting-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/arresting-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Arresting development"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Globe<\/a> ran a profile of John Kerry<\/a> last summer. I haven’t yet read the whole thing, but it mentions his only arrest of his life during a protest on Memorial Day in 1971. They also link to an old Doonesbury which takes a jab at Kerry for his relentless self-promotion. By contrast, G.W. has been arrested three times: once for stealing a wreath intended for his frat house, once for disorderly conduct at a Princeton-Yale football game for some sort of involvement in tearing down a goal post and finally his 1976 DUI arrest<\/a>. There’s also speculation that he was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972 and subsequently had the record expunged, but the reports are conflicting. There’s also the old story<\/a> that Bush originally lied about the 1976 DUI arrest and subsequently acknowledged it.<\/p>\n

If we’re going to nitpick about past actions<\/a> (even though we don’t have first hand knowledge<\/a>), let’s talk about arrest records and what they mean for a current president or presidential candidate. <\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/b>More<\/a> from DailyKos on the Karen Hughes comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Boston Globe ran a profile of John Kerry last summer. I haven’t yet read the whole thing, but it mentions his only arrest of his life during a protest on Memorial Day in 1971. They also link to an old Doonesbury which takes a jab at Kerry for his relentless self-promotion. By contrast, G.W. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-3T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}