{"id":6550,"date":"2008-10-22T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T03:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6550"},"modified":"2008-10-22T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T03:08:59","slug":"dont-worry-well-always-have-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6550","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Worry, We&#8217;ll Always Have Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/kausfiles\/default.aspx\">Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>: &quot;<strong>Mr. Gravitas:<\/strong> What was troubling about Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/10\/biden-to-suppor.html\">loin-girding gaffe<\/a>, as <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/276069.php\"><em>Ace of Spades<\/em> notes<\/a>, wasn&#8217;t the idea that Obama would be tested.&nbsp;It was the&nbsp;notion that<strong> we shouldn&#8217;t worry because he has Joe Biden as his backup!<\/strong> (&quot;I&#8217;ve forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know.&quot;) &#8230; And here I was giving Biden a pass for his<a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D91F3CF931A1575AC0A961948260&amp;sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=print\"> &quot;I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do&quot;<\/a> <strong>resume-inflating,&nbsp;<\/strong><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=8b5_1219507341\"><strong>campaign-ending 1988 embarrassment<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong> &#8230; <strong>P.S.:<\/strong>&nbsp;It&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s fault. Obama picked him. It was a <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/10\/biden-to-suppor.html\">hack choice with known dangers<\/a>, which are even now being realized.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus writes: &quot;Mr. Gravitas: What was troubling about Biden&#8217;s&nbsp;loin-girding gaffe, as Ace of Spades notes, wasn&#8217;t the idea that Obama would be tested.&nbsp;It was the&nbsp;notion that we shouldn&#8217;t worry because he has Joe Biden as his backup! (&quot;I&#8217;ve forgotten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6550\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[13742,13744,13743,5864,29883],"class_list":["post-6550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mickey-kaus","tag-ace-of-spades","tag-gaffe","tag-gravitas","tag-joe-biden","tag-mickey-kaus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6550\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}