{"id":21012,"date":"2017-04-14T00:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21012"},"modified":"2017-04-14T00:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:41:29","slug":"my-military-no-mr-potus-its-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21012","title":{"rendered":"‘My military’? No, Mr. POTUS, it’s ‘ours’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some commentators and analysts on MSNBC are getting a bit worked up tonight over Donald J. Trump’s use of the first-person singular pronoun.<\/p>\n

Trump was speaking today of the use of the so-called “mother of all bombs” on Islamic State targets in Afghanistan. He referred to “my military” taking charge of the mission and executing it with precision.<\/p>\n

My military? Umm, no sir. It’s our<\/em> military, the people’s military, the nation’s military.<\/p>\n

Now, to be fair …<\/p>\n

Other presidents have done the same thing, taking direct ownership of the office they occupy. Barack Obama was fond of referring to “my<\/em> national security team,” or “my<\/em> vice president,” or “my<\/em> economic team,” or “my<\/em> presidency.”<\/p>\n

I once challenged the former president’s generous use of that pronoun, trying to remind him that none of it belongs to him personally. I also sought to remind him that every single government employee — and they number in the millions — belong to the taxpayers who pay the bill.<\/p>\n

That includes the president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

The message I imparted then still applies to the current president.<\/p>\n

“My military”? No, Mr. President. The men and women who defend our nation do not belong to you.<\/p>\n

They belong to us. For that matter, Mr. President, so do you.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2014\/07\/take-ownership-not-possession\/<\/p>\n

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Some commentators and analysts on MSNBC are getting a bit worked up tonight over Donald J. Trump’s use of the first-person singular pronoun. Trump was speaking today of the use of the so-called “mother of all bombs” on Islamic State targets in Afghanistan. He referred to “my military” taking charge of the mission and executing … Continue reading ‘My military’? No, Mr. POTUS, it’s ‘ours’<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,3299,3688],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","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=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21014,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions\/21014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}