{"id":11360,"date":"2015-10-21T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2015-10-21T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T12:22:28","slug":"where-was-vpotus-on-the-bin-laden-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11360","title":{"rendered":"Where was VPOTUS on the bin Laden raid?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bin-laden-raid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11361\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bin-laden-raid-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"bin laden raid\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bin-laden-raid-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bin-laden-raid-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bin-laden-raid.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden is known for a lot of things: authenticity, verbosity, good humor, commitment to public policy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not known as a prevaricator.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if the vice president is going to run for the top job &#8212; and I&#8217;m not yet convinced he&#8217;s going to do so &#8212; he&#8217;s got to clear up a serious matter.<\/p>\n<p>What was his view on the raid to kill terrorist leader Osama bin Laden? Was he for it or not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/10\/joe-biden-support-bin-laden-raid-214954\">Biden is sending a mixed message<\/a>\u00a0regarding the bin Laden raid, which in May 2011 ended with bin Laden being shot to death by a Navy SEAL commando in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been reported that he wanted to wait &#8220;for two more things&#8221; to occur before sending in the commandos and that he gave that advice to President Obama. Now he says he was for it all along.<\/p>\n<p>I see some language-parsing on the horizon, which doesn&#8217;t answer the question about what he endorsed and when he endorsed it.<\/p>\n<p>If he was in favor of the raid at the beginning, but wanted to wait for further confirmation that bin Laden was holed up in that big house in Pakistan, then it&#8217;s OK to say so.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not play games, Mr. Vice President. Give it to us straight.<\/p>\n<p>Then you can\u00a0let us all know\u00a0whether you want to run for president.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Joe Biden is known for a lot of things: authenticity, verbosity, good humor, commitment to public policy. He&#8217;s not known as a prevaricator. Still, if the vice president is going to run for the top job &#8212; and I&#8217;m not yet convinced he&#8217;s going to do so &#8212; he&#8217;s got to clear up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where was VPOTUS on the bin Laden raid?<\/span> <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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13,14],"tags":[73,540,2505,3226,3458],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-biden","tag-navy-seals","tag-osama-bin-laden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}