{"id":17883,"date":"2016-11-09T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17883"},"modified":"2016-11-09T22:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T22:06:57","slug":"oh-to-be-a-fly-on-the-oval-office-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17883","title":{"rendered":"Oh, to be a fly on the Oval Office wall"},"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\/11\/obama_trump4-620x412.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17884\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/obama_trump4-620x412-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about immigration reform during a visit to Del Sol High School in Las Vegas, Nevada November 21, 2014. Obama imposed the most sweeping immigration reform in a generation on Thursday, easing the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants and setting up a clash with Republicans who vow to fight his moves. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION HEADSHOT) - RTR4F3RB\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/obama_trump4-620x412-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/obama_trump4-620x412.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I only can imagine how many others out there are thinking the same thing I am.<\/p>\n<p>If only I could be a fly on the wall Thursday in the White House Oval Office when the president-elect walks in to meet with the fellow who&#8217;s president until Jan. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump and Barack Obama are going to meet, I presume to start preliminary discussions about the transition from one administration to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Why the intense interest? I guess it has to do with the things Trump said about the president while he was campaigning for the office.<\/p>\n<p>Worst president in history; corrupt; disaster; commander in chief of a &#8220;decimated&#8221; military machine? Oh, and let&#8217;s not forget how Trump fomented the &#8220;birther&#8221; myth that Obama wasn&#8217;t a legitimate citizen of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said all of that &#8212; and much, much more &#8212; while waging a victorious campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>And didn&#8217;t Barack Obama declare that Trump is &#8220;unfit&#8221; to be president? Didn&#8217;t he ridicule his temperament? Didn&#8217;t he suggest Trump curries favor with our adversaries, such as Vladimir Putin?<\/p>\n<p>How does the president deal with the things Trump said? How does he set all that aside?<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, how does the president-elect act as if he never made those amazing statements about the president?<\/p>\n<p>How does the president turn the page from the criticism he leveled at Trump, particularly in the closing weeks of a bruising campaign?<\/p>\n<p>Let the healing begin in the Oval Office &#8230; if it&#8217;s possible after the campaign we&#8217;ve all just endured.<\/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 only can imagine how many others out there are thinking the same thing I am. If only I could be a fly on the wall Thursday in the White House Oval Office when the president-elect walks in to meet with the fellow who&#8217;s president until Jan. 20. Donald Trump and Barack Obama are going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, to be a fly on the Oval Office wall<\/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":[540,1424,3466,5246],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-oval-office","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883","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=17883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17886,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17883\/revisions\/17886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}