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“Failure is not an option.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Hold that thought, expressed by the actor Ed Harris portraying NASA flight director Gene Krantz in one of my all-time favorite films, “Apollo 13.”<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump is about to become president of the United States. I have made it one of my missions to call attention to the many — the seemingly countless — shortcomings of this man’s ability to do the job he is about to assume.<\/p>\n

I make no apologies for using this venue to criticize the president-elect with as much harshness as I can muster.<\/p>\n

However …<\/p>\n

Do I want<\/em> him to fail? Do I want<\/em> the country to suffer because of some wrongheaded decisions I believe he is entirely capable of making?<\/p>\n

No. Not in the least. I do not wish this individual to fail.<\/p>\n

Just as the actor Ed Harris noted, failure is “not an option” for a nation that relies on its president to propose policy directives that govern all 300 million-plus of us out here, even those of us who didn’t vote for him.<\/p>\n

Daddy Dittohead, aka the right-wing radio gas bag Rush Limbaugh, once (in)famously declared over the air that he “wants” President Obama to fail. He wished for failure, he yearned<\/em> for the president’s economic stimulus package — which he and Congress enacted to help bail out\u00a0collapsing industries — to take us down the road to ruin.<\/p>\n

What the hell kind of alleged patriot wants his fellow Americans to suffer because a president’s policy fail?<\/p>\n

I retain little faith that Donald J. Trump will succeed. Hell, I’m not even sure what the guy stands for!<\/p>\n

If he does succeed, I will join millions of other Americans in the round of applause.<\/p>\n

I do not, though, wish<\/em> for failure. It ain’t an option, man.<\/p>\n\n

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“Failure is not an option.” Hold that thought, expressed by the actor Ed Harris portraying NASA flight director Gene Krantz in one of my all-time favorite films, “Apollo 13.” Donald J. Trump is about to become president of the United States. I have made it one of my missions to call attention to the many … Continue reading Presidential failure takes us all down<\/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":[10,13,14],"tags":[6707,1398,1424,4046],"class_list":["post-18307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-apollo-13","tag-dittoheads","tag-donald-trump","tag-rush-limbaugh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307","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=18307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18311,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions\/18311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}