{"id":8919,"date":"2011-05-26T09:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2011-05-26T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T13:23:04","slug":"cassius-stuart-is-choking-on-the-foot-in-his-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/cassius-stuart-is-choking-on-the-foot-in-his-mouth","title":{"rendered":"Cassius Stuart is Choking on The Foot in His Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nassau Guardian has been publishing excerpts from confidential cables obtained from the whistle-blowing  non-profit organization Wikileaks.\u00a0 One of the cables dealt with an interview Cassius Sturat had with a U.S. Embassy official just before  the Elizabeth by-election last year.<\/p>\n<p>I that interview, Mr Stuart claimed he had been approached  by Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Perry Christie &#8220;who said he  was looking for someone to mold to eventually take over the leadership  of the PLP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stuart also likened Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, whom he has now jumped into bed with,\u00a0 to  Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe and former Haitian President  Jean-Bertrand Aristide, saying the PM was &#8220;letting the country go to  hell and allowing it to be bought by China&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Mr Stuart&#8217;s political credibilty, which was already being questioned, has now quite possibly been destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassius Stuart&#8217;s intimate talk with a U.S. Diplomat reinforces the wannabe politician&#8217;s image as a political opportunist after he abandonded his BDM party and joined the FNM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,168,113],"class_list":["post-8919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fnm","tag-politics-2","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}