{"id":7652,"date":"2008-12-22T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2008-12-23T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:02:51","slug":"joe-biden-set-to-be-the-least-consequential-vice-president-since-hubert-humphrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7652","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Set To Be The Least Consequential Vice-President Since Hubert Humphrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer when I heard people on the radio talking about what a great choice Joe Biden would be for vice-president because of his foreign policy credentials, I said, huh? What credentials? What has Joe Biden ever accomplished? I remember Brit Hume publishing a famous article in the New Republic in 1985 titled &quot;Shut Up, Senator Biden.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The guy&#8217;s an airhead.<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, he said that Dick Cheney&#8217;s power was &quot;dangerous.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Now he says that the power of vice-president under President Obama will return to its historical status, which is a &quot;bucket of warm piss&quot; to quote an FDR vice-president.<\/p>\n<p>In Biden&#8217;s case, this smaller role &quot;fits the man,&quot; as Charles Krauthammer put in on Fox News this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer when I heard people on the radio talking about what a great choice Joe Biden would be for vice-president because of his foreign policy credentials, I said, huh? What credentials? What has Joe Biden ever accomplished? I remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=7652\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[31876,13415,14911,14910,5864,14912],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-charles-krauthammer","tag-dick-cheney","tag-hubert-humphrey","tag-hume-publishing","tag-joe-biden","tag-senator-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","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=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7653,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions\/7653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}