{"id":20785,"date":"2017-04-05T03:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20785"},"modified":"2017-04-05T03:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:15:42","slug":"no-isis-potus-is-no-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20785","title":{"rendered":"No, ISIS … POTUS is no ‘idiot’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s one thing for Americans to disparage their own president, even to call him unflattering names.<\/p>\n

When a foreign power does it — let alone a mortal enemy of the United States and the rest of the civilized world — well, that’s quite another matter.<\/p>\n

The Islamic State has issued some kind of scathing statement in which it refers to Donald John Trump as an “idiot.” The ISIS statement says, in part: “… There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is,”<\/p>\n

ISIS has it wrong<\/a><\/p>\n

An “idiot” does not parlay a stake in a business handed down to him by his father into a multibillion-dollar real estate enterprise. An “idiot” doesn’t produce a successful reality TV show, nor does an “idiot” run a successful beauty pageant.<\/p>\n

There. That’s about as close as I’m going to come to saying something positive about the current president of the United States.<\/p>\n

He is na\u00efve, ignorant about the complexities of the government he runs; he is morally unfit to hold the office he occupies; he speaks clumsily; he bereft of core governing principles.<\/p>\n

An idiot?<\/p>\n

No. Far from it.<\/p>\n

What is troubling to this American is to hear such a description coming from a terrorist organization that beheads prisoners, kills innocent victims, hides behind children, sends suicide bombers to terrorize others — all in the name of Islam. These are religious perverts<\/em> who have no right to speak for true-blue adherents to a great religion.<\/p>\n

Perverting that religion sounds, if you’ll pardon the use of the term, like the action of a group of idiots.<\/em><\/p>\n

Put another way, Trump well might be an SOB, but he’s our<\/em> SOB.<\/p>\n\n

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It’s one thing for Americans to disparage their own president, even to call him unflattering names. When a foreign power does it — let alone a mortal enemy of the United States and the rest of the civilized world — well, that’s quite another matter. The Islamic State has issued some kind of scathing statement … Continue reading No, ISIS … POTUS is no ‘idiot’<\/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":[5,13],"tags":[1424,2348,2349,2362,4562],"class_list":["post-20785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islam","tag-islamic-state","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785","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=20785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20787,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions\/20787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}