{"id":37690,"date":"2019-12-06T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37690"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:52:40","slug":"the-quest-for-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37690","title":{"rendered":"The Quest For Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/john-kerry-endorses-joe-biden-for-president-to-fix-the-world-that-donald-trump-has-smashed-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Review<\/a> reported\u00a0 that former secretary of state John Kerry has endorsed Joe Biden for President. John Kerry cited Biden\u2019s performance serving as vice president in the Obama administration as proof that he has what it takes to defeat President Trump. Wow. I don&#8217;t know where to start.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cThe world is broken,\u201d Kerry <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1inMoZ4IR3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cOur politics are broken. The country faces extraordinary challenges. And I believe very deeply that Joe Biden\u2019s character, his ability to persevere, his decency and the experiences that he brings to the table are critical to the moment. The world has to be put back together, the world that Donald Trump has smashed apart.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kerry\u2019s announcement comes a week after news broke that former president Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/obama-chides-biden-over-failure-to-connect-to-iowa-voters-you-know-who-really-doesnt-have-it-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly said<\/a> Biden \u201creally doesn\u2019t have it\u201d in establishing a bond with the electorate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kerry seemingly disagreed with his former boss in describing Biden, calling him \u201cthe person for the moment.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing statement. John Kerry was elected to the United States Senate in 1984. He was sworn in as Secretary of State in February 2013. Joe Biden was a Senator from 1973 to 2009. President Donald Trump entered politics in 2015. If &#8216;the world is broken,&#8217; I would tend to put the responsibility for that on those who have been in power for the longest time&#8211;not on the new kid on the block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday National Review reported\u00a0 that former secretary of state John Kerry has endorsed Joe Biden for President. John Kerry cited Biden\u2019s performance serving as vice president in the Obama administration as proof that he has what it takes to defeat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,1281,911,135,10750,10589,9553,8367,1134],"class_list":["post-37690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-kerry","tag-national-review","tag-obama-administration","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-president-trump","tag-secretary-of-state-john-kerry","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37691,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37690\/revisions\/37691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}