{"id":17953,"date":"2016-11-14T00:26:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2016-11-14T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T00:26:30","slug":"smooth-transition-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17953","title":{"rendered":"Smooth transition under way"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama Meets With President-Elect Trump\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fzSK2gAkdD8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>President Obama met the man who will succeed him in the Oval Office and said something I found most interesting &#8212; and revealing.<\/p>\n<p>The president turned to Donald J. Trump and offered his full support during the transition. &#8220;If you succeed, the country succeeds,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that. The man who called Trump &#8220;unfit to be president&#8221; now is wishing him success as he prepares to seize the levers of power.<\/p>\n<p>Holy cow, man!<\/p>\n<p>Why is that worthy of comment? Consider the kind of things that many conservatives said in 2009 as Barack Obama succeeded George W. Bush as president.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of them &#8212; namely many of them talk-radio blowhards &#8212; were actually urging failure for the president. They didn&#8217;t care about the consequences of failure. They failed to connect the nation&#8217;s\u00a0fate with the president&#8217;s performance. They didn&#8217;t understand &#8212; or refused willfully to understand &#8212; that the nation suffers if the president fails.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate&#8217;s Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, declared that his No. 1 priority was to make Obama a one-term president. How does he do that? By ensuring failure at every step.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama deserves high praise for insisting that Donald Trump&#8217;s <em>success<\/em> bodes well for the nation.<\/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>President Obama met the man who will succeed him in the Oval Office and said something I found most interesting &#8212; and revealing. The president turned to Donald J. Trump and offered his full support during the transition. &#8220;If you succeed, the country succeeds,&#8221; the president said. Imagine that. The man who called Trump &#8220;unfit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smooth transition under way<\/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":[540,1424,3466,6672,5246],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-oval-office","tag-presidential-transition","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953","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=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}