{"id":12701,"date":"2020-10-01T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12701"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:06:25","slug":"about-those-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12701","title":{"rendered":"About those debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Biden was, at most, minimally reassuring. Allowing himself to be sucked into the vortex of Trump\u2019s cyclonic destruction of the event\u2019s negotiated rules, Biden called Trump a clown, a fool and a liar. Truth was, however, an insufficient justification for Biden\u2019s ignoring of this fact about Trump\u2019s behavior: Following him down is an endless journey.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/for-the-sake-of-the-country-cancel-the-remaining-debates\/2020\/09\/30\/e68ed090-0334-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Will<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s appeal lies in the irremediable odiousness of his opponent; in normal times he would be considered a weak candidate.  (In normal times he <i>has<\/i> been found to be a weak candidate &#8212; repeatedly.)<\/p>\n<p>But Trump is no more than an ambulatory foulness, and Biden will have to do.  And so much for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden was, at most, minimally reassuring. Allowing himself to be sucked into the vortex of Trump\u2019s cyclonic destruction of the event\u2019s negotiated rules, Biden called Trump a clown, a fool and a liar. Truth was, however, an insufficient justification for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12701"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12705,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12701\/revisions\/12705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}