{"id":28671,"date":"2020-11-10T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28671"},"modified":"2020-11-10T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T15:33:18","slug":"we-were-told-joe-biden-was-the-safe-choice-but-it-was-risky-to-offer-so-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2020\/11\/10\/we-were-told-joe-biden-was-the-safe-choice-but-it-was-risky-to-offer-so-little\/","title":{"rendered":"We were told Joe Biden was the &#8216;safe choice&#8217;. But it was risky to offer so little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/nov\/08\/joe-biden-risky-candidate-us-election\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">We were told Joe Biden was the &#8216;safe choice&#8217;. But it was risky to offer so little<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut I think that after days of gnawing our fingers down to the quick, it\u2019s fair to say that Biden was not safe at all, as we always knew. Not safe for the planet, not safe for the people on the front lines of police violence, not safe for the millions upon millions of people who are seeking asylum, but also not even safe as a candidate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is the video starting at Naomi Klein&#8217;s part.  You can watch the other parts at YouTube if you are so inclined.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hHAl-HjhchI?start=1117\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Remember the idea of the inside\/outside pincer.  I prefer to work from the outside part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has the article We were told Joe Biden was the &#8216;safe choice&#8217;. But it was risky to offer so little. But I think that after days of gnawing our fingers down to the quick, it\u2019s fair to say that Biden was not safe at all, as we always knew. Not safe for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}