{"id":181656,"date":"2016-04-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/22\/what-joe-biden-said\/"},"modified":"2016-04-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T23:00:00","slug":"what-joe-biden-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/22\/what-joe-biden-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Joe Biden Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the <i>New York Times<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/biden-clinton-realism\">Biden makes a very trenchant point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI like the idea of saying, \u2018We can do much more,\u2019 because we can,\u201d Mr. Biden said in an interview on the Washington-to-Wilmington, Del., Amtrak train he has ridden throughout four decades in national politics.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t think any Democrat\u2019s ever won saying, \u2018We can\u2019t think that big \u2014 we ought to really downsize here because it\u2019s not realistic,\u2019 \u201d he said in a mocking tone. \u201cC\u2019mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I\u2019m not part of the party that says, \u2018Well, we can\u2019t do it.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It puts something about Hillary&#8217;s campaign for President in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Much like a dog chasing a car, she has no idea what to do if she catches the Presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the New York Times, Biden makes a very trenchant point: \u2026\u2026\u2026\u201cI like the idea of saying, \u2018We can do much more,\u2019 because we can,\u201d Mr. Biden said in an interview on the Washington-to-Wilmington, Del., Amtrak train he has ridden throughout four decades in national politics.\u201cI don\u2019t think any Democrat\u2019s ever won &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,1003,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hillary-clinton","category-philosophy","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181656"}],"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=181656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}