{"id":30264,"date":"2018-06-12T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30264"},"modified":"2018-06-12T03:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T03:50:18","slug":"what-if-obama-had-done-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30264","title":{"rendered":"What if Obama had done this?"},"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>Barack H. Obama once stated he would be willing to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n<p>Those on the political right vilified the president for even suggesting such a thing. He&#8217;s naive, unprepared, too willing to surrender to the bad guys, they said.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump came into office. He launched a name-calling campaign against Kim Jong Un. Then he accepted an invitation to meet with him. The president &#8220;canceled&#8221; the meeting, but then the two sides worked out their differences.<\/p>\n<p>The right&#8217;s reaction? The president deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. He&#8217;s brilliant! He&#8217;s done the impossible!<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I give the president kudos for meeting with Kim, although I concede that my view on that meeting had changed a bit from a year ago, when I said he shouldn&#8217;t meet with Kim. Sill, I hope it produces something constructive and, yes, peaceful!<\/p>\n<p>If only the GOP &#8220;base&#8221; would have recognized what&#8217;s good for <em>their<\/em> guy also might have worked for his immediate predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Duplicitous.<\/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>Barack H. Obama once stated he would be willing to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Those on the political right vilified the president for even suggesting such a thing. He&#8217;s naive, unprepared, too willing to surrender to the bad guys, they said. Donald J. Trump came into office. He launched a name-calling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What if Obama had done this?<\/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":[5],"tags":[540,1424,2681,7319],"class_list":["post-30264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea-nukes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264","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=30264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30266,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions\/30266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}