{"id":41511,"date":"2020-03-03T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41511"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T22:49:57","slug":"biden-fits-the-bill-for-this-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41511","title":{"rendered":"Biden fits the bill for this old man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%23SuperTuesday&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41438\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/biden-2048x1024.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joseph R. Biden Jr. got my vote today for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise to readers of this blog. I waffled, wavered and wiggled a bit during the run-up to today&#8217;s Super Tuesday vote. In the end, though, I happen to fit into the demographic that is drawn to this fellow&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>I once thought he was nearly finished as a candidate:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2019\/11\/painful-to-acknowledge-but-ex-vp-biden-likely-is-finished\/<\/p>\n<p>I am an older voter. I am a white guy. I consider myself to be a patriot. I am a veteran who once went to war for my country. I am retired. I live a quiet life in North Texas with my bride of more than 48 years. I am a one-time firebrand who once wanted to change the world with my single vote; that was a long time ago and I have grown out of that desire.<\/p>\n<p>My keen interest today is in restoring the presidency to what I have grown up understanding it to represent. I believe Joseph Biden would do that for me.<\/p>\n<p>We have been &#8220;treated&#8221; to more than three years of chaos, confusion, controversy \u2026 and contempt for the norms associated with the exalted office. I am tired of it and I want the presidency returned to the dignity the office demands.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t belabor the point I have made already about Donald Trump&#8217;s unfitness for the office. I want to make another point, though: It is that Joe Biden, despite his verbal clumsiness and occasionally weird rhetoric, is profoundly fit to deliver the presidency from where Trump has dragged it.<\/p>\n<p>As I ponder now where this primary race heads after today, it is my hope that Biden can collect more support along the way and that he can parlay that support into a presidential nomination \u2026 and then election.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23JoeBiden%20%23POTUS%20%23SuperTuesday&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph R. Biden Jr. got my vote today for president of the United States. It is no surprise to readers of this blog. I waffled, wavered and wiggled a bit during the run-up to today&#8217;s Super Tuesday vote. In the end, though, I happen to fit into the demographic that is drawn to this fellow&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden fits the bill for this old man<\/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":[13],"tags":[1339,2505,3700,5246],"class_list":["post-41511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-democratic-party-primary","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidency","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511","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=41511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41514,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41511\/revisions\/41514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}