{"id":14380,"date":"2016-05-03T22:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14380"},"modified":"2016-05-03T22:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:47:03","slug":"jfk-becomes-part-of-this-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14380","title":{"rendered":"JFK becomes part of this campaign?"},"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\/2016\/05\/ted-cruz-father-jfk-assassination-f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14382\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ted-cruz-father-jfk-assassination-f-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"ted-cruz-father-jfk-assassination-f\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ted-cruz-father-jfk-assassination-f-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ted-cruz-father-jfk-assassination-f.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Matthews is a well-known liberal commentator with a reputation of talking over anyone he&#8217;s interviewing.<\/p>\n<p>When the MSNBC pundit gets his dander up, he&#8217;s quite capable of delivering profound analysis of all things political.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this: Matthews is incensed at Donald J. Trump&#8217;s assertion that Ted Cruz&#8217;s father somehow was complicit in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews&#8217; point? It is that Trump has crossed yet another boundary of good taste as he campaigns for the Republican Party presidential nomination. This time he has invoked a tragic memory that has burned itself indelibly into the minds of Americans old enough to remember the Nov. 22, 1963 murder of a president.<\/p>\n<p>And for what purpose? Matthews called it cheap politics. Trump has cheapened Americans&#8217; heartbreak by using the JFK murder as a political cudgel with which he seeks to beat a political opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Trump remembers that day, just like the rest of us who were old enough to recall it.<\/p>\n<p>I have to agree wholeheartedly with Matthews&#8217; belief that Trump once again has displayed an utter and absolute lack\u00a0of respect for historical context.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews also believes Trump&#8217;s preposterous assertion about Cruz&#8217;s father&#8217;s relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald is going to &#8220;matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about that.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe, though, that Trump lacks a fundamental trait necessary to become the head of state of the world&#8217;s greatest nation.<\/p>\n<p>It is decency.<\/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>Chris Matthews is a well-known liberal commentator with a reputation of talking over anyone he&#8217;s interviewing. When the MSNBC pundit gets his dander up, he&#8217;s quite capable of delivering profound analysis of all things political. Consider this: Matthews is incensed at Donald J. Trump&#8217;s assertion that Ted Cruz&#8217;s father somehow was complicit in the assassination &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14380\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JFK becomes part of this campaign?<\/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":[969,1424,2460,2464,3155,4537],"class_list":["post-14380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-chris-matthews","tag-donald-trump","tag-jfk","tag-jfk-murder","tag-msnbc","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380","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=14380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14384,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14380\/revisions\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}