{"id":57495,"date":"2024-08-26T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57495"},"modified":"2024-08-26T00:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T00:00:38","slug":"biden-made-unprecedented-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57495","title":{"rendered":"Biden made unprecedented move"},"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>I want to bask for just a little while longer in the afterglow of the Democratic National Convention, which wrapped up Thursday and sent its presidential and vice-presidential nominees to fight the Republican ticket.<\/p>\n<p>My point is to echo the praise we heard from the convention podium about the selflessness exhibited by President Joe Biden as he dropped his re-election bid, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him &#8230; and he did this on his own.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t quibble or quarrel over what motivated him to take that dramatic action. Biden said he loves being president but added quickly that &#8220;I love my country more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when you ponder it for just a moment, the act of voluntarily giving up political power has to rank as one of the most improbable acts imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Could the president reverse his political fortune and defeated the GOP ticket? I believe it was possible. The seamless handoff to Kamala Harris, though, has energized Democrats beyond all expectation.<\/p>\n<p>I also agree with Biden about the imperativeness of keeping Donald Trump away from the Resolute Desk &#8230; forever!<\/p>\n<p>If that was Joe Biden&#8217;s primary motivation in surrendering power, then I&#8217;m all in on that effort.\u00a0 I also join others who have hailed this act as one of high political courage.<\/p>\n<p>As former President Obama said at the end of his stemwinding speech at the DNC:<em> Let&#8217;s get to work!<\/em><\/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>I want to bask for just a little while longer in the afterglow of the Democratic National Convention, which wrapped up Thursday and sent its presidential and vice-presidential nominees to fight the Republican ticket. My point is to echo the praise we heard from the convention podium about the selflessness exhibited by President Joe Biden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden made unprecedented move<\/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":[14],"tags":[9543,1406,2505,8357,7419],"class_list":["post-57495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2024-election","tag-dnc","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495","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=57495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57496,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57495\/revisions\/57496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}