{"id":19388,"date":"2017-01-22T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19388"},"modified":"2017-01-22T15:38:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T15:38:28","slug":"potus-displays-a-clenched-fist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19388","title":{"rendered":"POTUS displays a clenched fist"},"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\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19389\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/clenched-fist.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have plenty of opportunity during the next four years to discuss politics and policy regarding the fellow pictured here.<\/p>\n<p>For the next moment or two, though, I want to inquire about the image you are seeing here. It&#8217;s the president of the United States of America, standing on the podium before a <em>yuuuge<\/em> crowd on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p>He has just delivered his inaugural speech and he gestures with a clenched fist.<\/p>\n<p>Is that the posture of a man truly interested in unifying the country? Is this how Donald J. Trump plans to bring people together?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been said repeatedly that &#8220;words matter.&#8221; So does body language. So do gestures. They transmit certain images and reveal, I believe, a certain belief system of the person who offers the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to belabor this point. I&#8217;ve made it. Now I am out.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to see\u00a0the president of the United States open his arms, not\u00a0raise his arm and display a\u00a0<em>clenched fist.<\/em><\/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>We&#8217;ll have plenty of opportunity during the next four years to discuss politics and policy regarding the fellow pictured here. For the next moment or two, though, I want to inquire about the image you are seeing here. 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