{"id":777,"date":"2008-08-23T04:04:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2008-08-23T04:04:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T09:04:01","slug":"its-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Joe Biden\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/134\/374537751_0764993e13.jpg?resize=332%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<small>[Image by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/seiu\/\">SEIU International<\/a> licensed with <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons<\/a>.]<\/small><\/p>\n<p>In an email sent out at 3:30 am, the Barack Obama campaign announced that it had picked Joe Biden to run as Barack Obama&#8217;s Vice PResident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Negatives<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s been known to put <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Story?id=2838420\">his foot in his mouth<\/a> on occasion.<\/li>\n<li>He was accused of plagiarism back in the <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DD1531F931A2575AC0A961948260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=print\">1980s<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>His middle name is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Biden\">Robinette<\/a>. (Seriously, Robinette.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Positives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s been involved in American foreign policy for twenty years.<\/li>\n<li>He captured Rudy Guiliani&#8217;s essence better than anyone when he said, &#8220;Rudy Giuliani \u2014 there&#8217;s only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9\/11.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>He will attack McCain relentlessly.<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s a Catholic (and Catholics are a key swing group.)<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/22\/opinion\/22brooks.html?hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">old<\/a>, with all the wisdom of being old.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Image by SEIU International licensed with Creative Commons.] In an email sent out at 3:30 am, the Barack Obama campaign announced that it had picked Joe Biden to run as Barack Obama&#8217;s Vice PResident. Negatives: He&#8217;s been known to put his foot in his mouth on occasion. He was accused of plagiarism back in the [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6,4],"tags":[626,624],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama","category-politics","tag-joe-biden","tag-vice-president"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-cx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}