{"id":9754,"date":"2020-06-17T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=9754"},"modified":"2020-06-17T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:46:23","slug":"declaration-of-candidacy-for-president-june-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2020\/06\/17\/declaration-of-candidacy-for-president-june-15-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaration of Candidacy for President (June 15, 2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Declaration of Candidacy for President <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">(June 15, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Press Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Seoul Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening remarks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The COVID19 virus has infected every aspect of American society, implanting its vicious DNA deep in the body politic and rendering a nation that offered much to the world unrecognizable to many of us. The origins of this horrific virus remain uncertain, but it has been abetted by a deep moral bankruptcy, by the collapse of a sense of ethical commitment on the part of those who had the good fortune to receive good educations, who have had the leisure to be able to think for themselves.<br>We, those who have had such good luck, must not consider our benefits as something we possess, most certainly not something we should defend, but should first and foremost always have in mind those who work late at night at the convenience store, or mopping up in office buildings, or who, homeless, huddle together behind cardboard walls along a freeway. Those Americans have not had the chance to learn our skills, to understand economics or culture, history and security. It is first and foremost our duty to stand with them and to protect them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1592228646837-1-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9755\" \/><figcaption>Declaration of Candidacy for President <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1592228646837-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9756\" \/><figcaption>Opening remarks by former Chairman of the National Assemby Lee Bu-young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1592228646837-6.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9757\" \/><figcaption>Remarks after the event to journalists<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Declaration of Candidacy for President (June 15, 2020) Press Center Seoul Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club Opening remarks &#8220;The COVID19 virus has infected every aspect of American society, implanting its vicious DNA deep in the body politic and rendering a nation that offered much to the world unrecognizable to many of us. The origins of this horrific &#8230; <a title=\"Declaration of Candidacy for President (June 15, 2020)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2020\/06\/17\/declaration-of-candidacy-for-president-june-15-2020\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Declaration of Candidacy for President (June 15, 2020)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}