{"id":8983,"date":"2011-01-28T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8983"},"modified":"2011-01-28T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T18:40:14","slug":"joe-biden-a-ridiculous-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/28\/joe-biden-a-ridiculous-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: A Ridiculous Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Backchannels\/2011\/0127\/Joe-Biden-says-Egypt-s-Mubarak-no-dictator-he-shouldn-t-step-down\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s our Vice President, clueless as ever:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with Israel. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I would not refer to him as a dictator.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.oneindia.in\/2011\/01\/28\/fourdead-dozens-injured-in-clashes-in-north-easternegypt-aid0127.html\">Murdering<\/a> people in the streets, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2011\/01\/28\/how-egypt-killed-the-internet\/\">shutting down <\/a>the internet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/newsbook\/2010\/11\/egypts_elections\">rigged<\/a> elections,<a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/05\/egypt-keeps-blogger.html\"> jailing<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 bloggers &#8212; oh <em>no<\/em>, that&#8217;s not a dictator.\u00c2\u00a0 Biden\u00c2\u00a0has alway been\u00c2\u00a0a ridiculous man &#8212; now he&#8217;s a ridiculously immoral man who&#8217;s endangering US interests in the region.<\/p>\n<p>By the way: we\u00c2\u00a0 don&#8217;t see any coverage of Biden&#8217;s idiocy on the Huffington Post &#8212; or MSNBC, the amen corner of the Obama administration. Aren&#8217;t you surprised?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8216;s our Vice President, clueless as ever: &#8220;\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with Israel. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I would not refer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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-8983","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\/8983","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8983\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8983"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}