{"id":15120,"date":"2016-06-08T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15120"},"modified":"2016-06-08T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T16:54:44","slug":"what-they-didnt-say-is-most-instructive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15120","title":{"rendered":"What they didn&#8217;t say is most instructive"},"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\/01\/Horserace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12278\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Horserace-300x95.jpg\" alt=\"Horserace\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Horserace-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Horserace-768x243.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Horserace-1024x324.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could take credit for making this observation, but I cannot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give credit to Chuck Todd, moderator of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and NBC News&#8217;s chief political correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, after their big victories in their respective presidential primaries, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spoke to their faithful followers.<\/p>\n<p>Todd noted a great unspoken from both of them: They didn&#8217;t &#8220;congratulate each other&#8221; for becoming their parties&#8217; presumptive presidential nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Todd noted that going back to the 2000 election season, candidates have reached across to offer a word of thanks to their opponents for\u00a0reaching an important and hard-fought milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Al Gore congratulated George W. Bush in 2000; President Bush did the same in 2004 when John Kerry crossed the &#8220;presumptive&#8221; threshold; John McCain offered kudos to Barack Obama in 2008; and President Obama did the same when Mitt Romney became his party&#8217;s presumptive nominee in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This year? Nothing. Not a word of congratulations from either Trump the Republican or Clinton the Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised at that? Me, neither.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has labeled Clinton as &#8220;Crooked Hillary&#8221;; Clinton has said that Trump is &#8220;temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Todd has reason to worry now about what lies ahead as Clinton and Trump battle each other for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>If the absence of anything approaching a kind word about the opposition in their moments of triumph is any indication, we&#8217;re in for an extremely rough and uncivil campaign.<\/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>I wish I could take credit for making this observation, but I cannot. I&#8217;ll give credit to Chuck Todd, moderator of &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; and NBC News&#8217;s chief political correspondent. Last night, after their big victories in their respective presidential primaries, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spoke to their faithful followers. Todd noted a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What they didn&#8217;t say is most instructive<\/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":[986,1424,2139,2991,3236],"class_list":["post-15120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-chuck-todd","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-meet-the-press","tag-nbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","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=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15122,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions\/15122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}