{"id":27421,"date":"2018-01-15T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27421"},"modified":"2018-01-15T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:03:01","slug":"embarrassment-yeah-ya-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27421","title":{"rendered":"An ’embarrassment’? Yeah, do ya think?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chuck Hagel isn’t your run-of-the-mill Donald John Trump critic.<\/p>\n

He once served as defense secretary for President Obama. Oh, but wait! The man isn’t a squishy liberal. He also is a former Republican<\/em> senator from Nebraska, one of the many states known to be rock-ribbed, red-state Republican bastions. Hagel also is a Vietnam War veteran, serving there in the U.S. Army. He’s been in battle and knows its consequences.<\/p>\n

So, when Chuck Hagel <\/a>calls the president an “embarrassment” to the nation, well, I tend to listen to him.<\/p>\n

Hagel sat down with the Lincoln (Neb.) Star-Journal in which he unloaded on the president. He tore into him for his reported “sh**hole countries” comment describing Haiti, El Salvador and nations in Africa that account for many immigrants coming into the United States.<\/p>\n

“Donald Trump is doing great damage to our country internationally,” Hagel told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

He said lawmakers take an oath to defend the Constitution and not stand blindly behind any individual or their political party. “I was philosophically a Republican with a conservative voting record,” Hagel said, “but that did not mean I would always go along with the party.”<\/p>\n

So, he’s not going along. He is speaking from his heart and telling us what’s on his mind. Moreover, he is speaking for a lot of his fellow Americans — such as yours truly — when he tells us that the president is embarrassing us.<\/p>\n

I happen to be embarrassed — and ashamed — by the conduct of the man who is our head of state.<\/p>\n

Thus, I share Secretary\/Sen. Hagel’s pain.<\/p>\n\n

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Chuck Hagel isn’t your run-of-the-mill Donald John Trump critic. He once served as defense secretary for President Obama. Oh, but wait! The man isn’t a squishy liberal. He also is a former Republican senator from Nebraska, one of the many states known to be rock-ribbed, red-state Republican bastions. Hagel also is a Vietnam War veteran, … Continue reading An ’embarrassment’? Yeah, do ya think?<\/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":[540,983,6947,1424,2245,3370,5116],"class_list":["post-27421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-department-of-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-obama-administration","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421","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=27421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27423,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27421\/revisions\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}