{"id":28221,"date":"2018-02-20T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28221"},"modified":"2018-02-20T04:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:06:00","slug":"still-grieving-mr-potus-show-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28221","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re still grieving, Mr. POTUS; show some leadership"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/parkland-florida-school-shooting-05-ap-jc-180214_4x3_992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28109\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/parkland-florida-school-shooting-05-ap-jc-180214_4x3_992-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/parkland-florida-school-shooting-05-ap-jc-180214_4x3_992-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/parkland-florida-school-shooting-05-ap-jc-180214_4x3_992-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/parkland-florida-school-shooting-05-ap-jc-180214_4x3_992.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americans are still in pain over what has happened yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Parkland, Fla., high school students were terrorized on Valentine&#8217;s Day when a gunman opened fire, killing 14 students and three educators. He was taken into custody and now stands accused of 17 counts of &#8220;premeditated murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where has the president of the United States been on all this?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump went on TV and offered the usual love and prayers. As one of those grieving Americans, I appreciate his expression of support for the victims&#8217; families and their fellow students.<\/p>\n<p>But the president keeps allowing himself to be distracted. He flies off on those Twitter tirades. He becomes consumed by &#8220;the Russia thing,&#8221; blasting foes and even the FBI and his national security adviser over the indictments handed down by special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he also remains disgracefully silent on the issue of gun violence. He has talked about &#8220;mental illness&#8221; and &#8220;school safety.&#8221; What about guns, Mr. President?<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, when are you going to speak from the depth of your gut about the tragedy that befell those families?<\/p>\n<p>He went to Florida and heaped praise on the first responders, calling them &#8220;fantastic&#8221; and &#8220;incredible.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t speak publicly to the unspeakable pain of the Parkland community &#8212; not to mention the rest of the nation that watched this horror unfold.<\/p>\n<p>The president needs to start acting like &#8230; a <em>president.<\/em><\/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>Americans are still in pain over what has happened yet again. Parkland, Fla., high school students were terrorized on Valentine&#8217;s Day when a gunman opened fire, killing 14 students and three educators. He was taken into custody and now stands accused of 17 counts of &#8220;premeditated murder.&#8221; Where has the president of the United States &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28221\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We&#8217;re still grieving, Mr. POTUS; show some leadership<\/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":[13],"tags":[1424,7590,4932],"class_list":["post-28221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-parkland-shooting","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221","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=28221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28224,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28221\/revisions\/28224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}