{"id":28901,"date":"2019-04-05T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=28901"},"modified":"2019-04-05T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T07:01:07","slug":"joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden: I’m Rewriting That Post I Wrote About Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Joe<\/a>
Here, a New York Times article addresses complaints from women about the way they say Joe Biden touched them. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Biden is a good guy. No doubt about it. And I’ll vote for him in a heartbeat if I have to choose between him and Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n

I’m deleting my earlier comments about how Biden needs to understand that unwanted cozy touching is not OK and never has been.<\/p>\n

Yeah. True, he needs to work on that. And I think he can. We seventy-somethings are definitely capable of change.<\/p>\n

Why my flip-flop? I’ve decided not to join in the piling on. I’ve decided not to let myself be manipulated into joining the online backbiting. (See a post I wrote during the 2016 presidential race, “Donald Trump Played Me. Here’s How.”)<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Joe Biden his party’s best bet\u00a0 as president<\/a>? Could be. He’d be a fine president, and he’d give voice to all the millions of working people who feel forgotten by the Washington and coastal “elites.” I also have my eye on some folks from younger — though not necessarily more enlightened — generations: Amy Klobuchar; I like that she’s tough. Pete Buttigieg; I like that he’s smart. Jay Inslee; yes, go green! Tim Ryan; yet another good guy. Elizabeth Warren; kinda professorial, but she’s got big finance’s number. And, and, and . . . .<\/p>\n

More stories in which I get tangled up in politics:\u00a0“Brett Kavanaugh — The One Teenager We Know He Bullied.”<\/a>\u00a0 Also,\u00a0“I Decided to Stop Bad-Mouthing Donald Trump. But Will I?”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Joe<\/a><\/p>\n

Joe Biden is a good guy. But he doesn’t get it. This touchy-feely stuff has never been OK. He needs to own up to that. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2130,2131,1482,2132,148,2133,2134,282,2135,2110,2136],"class_list":["post-28901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-2010-election","tag-buttigieg","tag-career","tag-democrats","tag-feminism","tag-joe-biden","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-presidential-candidates","tag-sexual-assault","tag-womens-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}