{"id":87853,"date":"2024-07-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87853"},"modified":"2024-07-06T07:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T12:23:21","slug":"as-clearly-as-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87853","title":{"rendered":"As Clearly As He Can"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it just me, or is this post from last Friday by President Biden&#8217;s social media intern a little extra ordinary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let me say this as clearly as I can:<br><br>I\u2019m the sitting President of the United States. <br><br>I\u2019m the nominee of the Democratic party.<br><br>I\u2019m staying in the race.<\/p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1809310761933525304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall a president ever feeling the need to tell the American people &#8220;BECAUSE I&#8217;M DADDY, SO DON&#8217;T MAKE STOP THIS CAR&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not even Nixon had to remind people he was still in charge, IIRC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or is this post from last Friday by President Biden&#8217;s social media intern a little extra ordinary? I don&#8217;t recall a president ever feeling the need to tell the American people &#8220;BECAUSE I&#8217;M DADDY, SO DON&#8217;T MAKE STOP THIS CAR&#8221;. Not even Nixon had to remind people he was still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,425,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biden-campaign-defenestration","category-campaign-24","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87854,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87853\/revisions\/87854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}