{"id":24956,"date":"2017-09-25T17:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T17:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24956"},"modified":"2017-09-25T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:00:23","slug":"wheres-the-national-angst-over-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24956","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the national angst over Puerto Rico?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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David Axelrod, the man known around the country as Barack H. Obama’s political guru, posted a fascinating tweet today.<\/p>\n

He writes:\u00a0Why isn’t this huge and growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico commanding more attention and action? Too busy on anthems and epithets.<\/em><\/p>\n

I feel ashamed.<\/p>\n

An island with 3.5 million U.S.-citizen inhabitants is without electricity. It is lacking potable water. A major dam is being threatened with complete failure; it might collapse under the weight of the water backing up behind it. Residents are homeless. They are desperate. They are hurting.<\/p>\n

And what in the name of humanitarian response are we talking about in the United States of America?<\/p>\n

Whether professional athletes should stand while they play the National Anthem. The president of the United States is launching endless Twitter tirades against those athletes, calling them SOBs.<\/p>\n

Where, indeed, is the national anxiety over the misery that’s befallen our territorial neighbors in the Caribbean?<\/p>\n\n

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David Axelrod, the man known around the country as Barack H. Obama’s political guru, posted a fascinating tweet today. He writes:\u00a0Why isn’t this huge and growing humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico commanding more attention and action? Too busy on anthems and epithets. I feel ashamed. An island with 3.5 million U.S.-citizen inhabitants is without electricity. … Continue reading Where’s the national angst over Puerto Rico?<\/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],"tags":[1266,7330,3190,7331],"class_list":["post-24956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-david-axelrod","tag-hurricane-maria","tag-national-anthem","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956","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=24956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24960,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24956\/revisions\/24960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}