{"id":10499,"date":"2015-08-10T01:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10499"},"modified":"2015-08-10T01:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T01:48:33","slug":"where-were-you-on-sept-10-2001-gov-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10499","title":{"rendered":"Where were you on Sept. 10, 2001, Gov. Christie?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chris-christie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10072\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chris-christie-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Chris-Christie\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chris-christie-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chris-christie-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/chris-christie.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie needs to come clean on a statement he made during Thursday night&#8217;s joint appearance with nine other Republican candidates for president.<\/p>\n<p>He said something about being &#8220;appointed U.S. attorney&#8221; on Sept. 10, 2001, a day before &#8220;the world changed forever&#8221; during the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, governor.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, sir.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush appointed Christie to be U.S. attorney in New Jersey on <em>Dec. 7<\/em>, 2001. But to make some kind of argument against U.S. Sen. Rand Paul during the Thursday night &#8220;debate,&#8221; he said he&#8217;d been named to the job the day before those attacks and that on the day of the attacks he was &#8220;hugging&#8221; family members of victims.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I happen to like Gov. Christie. I hope he does well during the upcoming GOP presidential primary campaign. I like his no-nonsense approach to problem-solving, his sometimes-blunt talk, his can-do attitude &#8212; and I even like the fact that he hugged Barack Obama when the president came to the Jersey Shore to inspect the damage done by Hurricane\/Super Storm Sandy on the eve of the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>However, he need not inflate his resume by putting himself a tad too quickly into a federal office just to score political points.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0unbecoming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie needs to come clean on a statement he made during Thursday night&#8217;s joint appearance with nine other Republican candidates for president. He said something about being &#8220;appointed U.S. attorney&#8221; on Sept. 10, 2001, a day before &#8220;the world changed forever&#8221; during the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. Oops, governor. Not so, sir. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10499\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where were you on Sept. 10, 2001, Gov. Christie?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[97,540,965,1899,2222,3822,4947],"class_list":["post-10499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-911-attacks","tag-barack-obama","tag-chris-christie","tag-george-w-bush","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-rand-paul","tag-u-s-attorney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}