{"id":16608,"date":"2016-08-20T02:51:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16608"},"modified":"2016-08-20T02:51:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:51:32","slug":"potus-set-to-tour-louisiana-flood-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16608","title":{"rendered":"POTUS set to tour Louisiana flood zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, here you go.<\/p>\n

President Obama has said he’s going to Louisiana next week to see first hand the damage caused by the historic flood.<\/p>\n

I’m glad to know he’s going to size it up in person.<\/p>\n

Yes, I wrote that he should go. Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Mike Pence, made a show of it today by venturing to the flood zone. They went despite being asked to stay away by Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to me that candidates<\/em> can do nothing to help. They do manage to score some political points, which Trump sought to do.<\/p>\n

Presidents, though, do bring\u00a0loads of\u00a0gravitas<\/em> to such visits.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/obama-louisiana-flooding-visit-227209<\/a><\/p>\n

For that reason, I’m glad Barack Obama is going to fulfill an unwritten but always understood job requirement. It is to be the comforter in chief. Obama is good at it.<\/p>\n

Lord knows he’s had enough experience embracing grieving Americans caught in the midst of crisis.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2016\/08\/president-ought-to-take-a-look-at-the-flood-damage\/<\/p>\n

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Well, here you go. President Obama has said he’s going to Louisiana next week to see first hand the damage caused by the historic flood. I’m glad to know he’s going to size it up in person. Yes, I wrote that he should go. Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and his running mate, Mike … Continue reading POTUS set to tour Louisiana flood zone<\/span> →<\/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":[540,1424,6507,3067,3688],"class_list":["post-16608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-louisiana-floods","tag-mike-pence","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608","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=16608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16610,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16608\/revisions\/16610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}