{"id":17244,"date":"2016-09-25T18:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2016-09-27T01:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:49:01","slug":"looking-presidential-doesnt-erase-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17244","title":{"rendered":"Looking &#8216;presidential&#8217; doesn&#8217;t erase the record"},"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\/07\/Clinton-and-Trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15968\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Clinton-and-Trump-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Clinton-and-Trump\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Clinton-and-Trump-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Clinton-and-Trump.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sunday-morning news talk show chatter is full of speculation about one of the major-party candidates for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Republican, Donald J. Trump, look &#8220;presidential&#8221; when he faces Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in their first joint appearance Monday night?<\/p>\n<p>Looking &#8220;presidential,&#8221; I feel compelled to add, does not erase the record of profoundly <em>non-presidential<\/em> moments in the campaign to date.<\/p>\n<p>The endless list of insults does not vanish simply because the deliverer of those insults looks presidential.<\/p>\n<p>The hideous mocking of\u00a0a disabled reporter? The bizarre back-and-forth with Marco Rubio that centered on the candidates&#8217; manhood during a Republican primary debate? Trump&#8217;s awful response to a journalist&#8217;s question about how he treats women? His stream-of-consciousness policy changes on immigration?<\/p>\n<p>Whether the GOP nominee &#8220;looks presidential&#8221; during this highly anticipated event with the Democratic nominee will not\u00a0wipe away the lengthy demonstrations to the\u00a0contrary.<\/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>The Sunday-morning news talk show chatter is full of speculation about one of the major-party candidates for president of the United States. Will the Republican, Donald J. Trump, look &#8220;presidential&#8221; when he faces Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton in their first joint appearance Monday night? Looking &#8220;presidential,&#8221; I feel compelled to add, does not erase the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Looking &#8216;presidential&#8217; doesn&#8217;t erase the record<\/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":[1424,1941,2139,3714],"class_list":["post-17244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-presidential-debate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244","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=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17274,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions\/17274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}