{"id":212,"date":"2013-05-17T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/17\/veteran-newsman-has-it-right"},"modified":"2013-05-17T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T19:39:00","slug":"veteran-newsman-has-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"Veteran newsman has it right"},"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>Bob Schieffer is a smart Texan who\u2019s been around the center of power longer than most people can remember.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran CBS news anchor\/reporter\/commentator had it quite right this morning when he said President Obama has to stop acting like a \u201cbystander\u201d in his own government.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/05\/16\/schieffer_on_scandals_its_very_very_disturbing_what_were_seeing.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/05\/16\/schieffer_on_scandals_its_very_very_disturbing_what_were_seeing.html\">http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/05\/16\/schieffer_on_scandals_its_very_very_disturbing_what_were_seeing.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schieffer, who grew up in Fort Worth, has been a frequent target of conservative critics who contend he\u2019s a member of the \u201cliberal mainstream media\u201d (I\u2019m still trying to learn just who comprises the \u201cmainstream media\u201d). But he takes serious the criticism that has engulfed the president in recent days as controversies have erupted all around the White House.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that the Barack Obama has become the second coming of Richard Nixon, Schieffer said. It\u2019s that the president and those closest to him are acting like there\u2019s nobody in charge. The attorney general didn\u2019t know precisely about the seizure of phone records at the Associated Press, the head of Internal Revenue Service didn\u2019t know about the hassling of conservative political action groups, and the president himself didn\u2019t know about the Benghazi tragedy as it was unfolding nearly a year ago in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m waiting for the president to get back into the game. He was re-elected in November despite presiding over a still-struggling economy. He wants to build a legacy he can leave behind when he exits his office in January 2017. But as Schieffer noted, he\u2019d better \u201cget hold\u201d of these controversies or else nothing will get done.<\/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>Bob Schieffer is a smart Texan who\u2019s been around the center of power longer than most people can remember. The veteran CBS news anchor\/reporter\/commentator had it quite right this morning when he said President Obama has to stop acting like a \u201cbystander\u201d in his own government. http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2013\/05\/16\/schieffer_on_scandals_its_very_very_disturbing_what_were_seeing.html Schieffer, who grew up in Fort Worth, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran newsman has it right<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","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=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}