{"id":176768,"date":"2020-03-25T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/25\/democrats-bring-a-rubber-chicken-to-a-gun-fight\/"},"modified":"2020-03-25T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T01:10:00","slug":"democrats-bring-a-rubber-chicken-to-a-gun-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/03\/25\/democrats-bring-a-rubber-chicken-to-a-gun-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Bring a Rubber Chicken to a Gun Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/489231-biden-i-dont-want-to-be-in-a-political-fight-with-trump-over-coronavirus\">he does not want to get involved in a political fight with Donald Trump over the latter&#8217;s complete mishandling of the of the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My dear Biden: If you don&#8217;t want to use your Presidential Campaign I should like to borrow it for a while<\/p>\n<p>This is worse than a crime, it is a mistake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he does not want to be in a political fight with President Trump over the coronavirus outbreak but that he would continue to call the president out on misinformation regarding the virus. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I have not been criticizing the president, but I&#8217;ve been pointing out where there is disagreement on how to proceed,&#8221; Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The coronavirus is not his fault, but the lack of speed with which to respond to it has to move much faster,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;This is not about Democrat or Republican. This is not about what your party is. It&#8217;s about getting through this.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The American people don&#8217;t want us in a political fight, and I want no part of a political fight either, but when the president says things that turn out not to be accurate, we should not say &#8216;you&#8217;re lying,&#8217; we should say &#8216;Mr. President that&#8217;s not the facts, here&#8217;s the deal.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, if Joe Biden does not want to campaign for the Presidency, why does he want to be the nomineee?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden has announced that he does not want to get involved in a political fight with Donald Trump over the latter&#8217;s complete mishandling of the of the Covid-19 pandemic. My dear Biden: If you don&#8217;t want to use your Presidential Campaign I should like to borrow it for a while This is worse than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,578,594,405],"class_list":["post-176768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-incompetence","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}