{"id":35761,"date":"2020-08-27T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=35761"},"modified":"2020-08-27T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T16:11:44","slug":"john-mccains-staff-endorse-biden-explicitly-because-hes-worse-on-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/27\/john-mccains-staff-endorse-biden-explicitly-because-hes-worse-on-war\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCain&#8217;s Staff Endorse Biden, Explicitly Because He&#8217;s Worse on War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/27\/us\/politics\/john-mccain-biden-trump.html\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 former staff members for Senator John McCain are supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., a show of support across the political divide that they hope amplifies the \u201cCountry First\u201d credo of the former Arizona senator.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the onetime McCain aides who signed the letter share his hawkish foreign policy views and recoil from Mr. Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d politics, which Mr. Salter called his \u201ccoddling of dictators or disinterest in our alliances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Got that? \u201cCountry First\u201d means world empire and endless war; while on the contrary, \u201cAmerica First\u201d means world empire and endless war at the hands of someone who whines about it sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/blog\/john-mccains-staff-endorse-biden-explicitly-because-hes-worse-on-war\/\">Cross-posted from the Libertarian Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times: More than 100 former staff members for Senator John McCain are supporting Joseph R. Biden Jr., a show of support across the political divide that they hope amplifies the \u201cCountry First\u201d credo of the former Arizona senator. Many of the onetime McCain aides who signed the letter share his hawkish foreign policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-35761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35763,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35761\/revisions\/35763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35761"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}