{"id":17551,"date":"2016-10-13T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2016-10-13T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:20:51","slug":"time-to-give-trump-a-bit-of-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17551","title":{"rendered":"Time to give Trump a bit of a break"},"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>I&#8217;m not usually prone to cut any slack for the incompetent, unqualified and unfit Republican nominee for president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do so here, although I&#8217;m not going to give him a complete pass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donaldtrumpgetty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16837\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donaldtrumpgetty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"donaldtrumpgetty\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donaldtrumpgetty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donaldtrumpgetty.jpg 645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was blabbing at a rally this week and urged his supporters to be sure to vote &#8220;on Nov. 28.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The media are having a blast. They&#8217;re laughing out loud that Trump would make such a mistake. The election occurs on the <em>Eighth<\/em> of November.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a big deal? Is it <em>h-u-u-u-g-e? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no bigger of a mistake, I suppose, than Sen. Barack Obama declaring during his first run for the presidency in 2008 that the U. S. of A. comprised <em>57 states<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;oh! Sen. Obama knew better than that. He must have been tired.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing Trump has grown a bit weary, too, having to fend off all the criticism of his behavior, his insults, his statements about women &#8230; all those kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>So, he goofs on date of the election. B &#8230; F &#8230; D, man.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m quite certain there&#8217;ll be plenty more grist\u00a0to toss at Trump over the next four weeks.<\/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&#8217;m not usually prone to cut any slack for the incompetent, unqualified and unfit Republican nominee for president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. I&#8217;ll do so here, although I&#8217;m not going to give him a complete pass. He was blabbing at a rally this week and urged his supporters to be sure to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to give Trump a bit of a break<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,1547],"class_list":["post-17551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551","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=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17552,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}