{"id":32751,"date":"2018-10-11T02:24:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32751"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:27:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T02:27:58","slug":"campaigning-while-americans-are-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32751","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning while Americans are suffering?"},"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 monstrous hurricane blasted ashore today in the Florida Panhandle. It then stormed into Alabama and Georgia, heading for the still-suffering Carolinas, where it will do even more damage.<\/p>\n<p>So, what did the president of the United States do? Donald Trump decided to rev up his political base at a rally in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>I get that the president is always &#8220;on top of things&#8221; by virtue of his staff that is supposed to keep him briefed.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t there an &#8220;optics&#8221; problem, though, with the president blasting Democrats and assorted political foes while millions of Americans are enduring the wrath that Hurricane Michael has brought? I kind of believe there is an image problem.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, it should be stated yet again, clearly lacks an empathy gene. He doesn&#8217;t appear to feel anyone&#8217;s pain, or understand fully the suffering that others endure. His entire focus always is centered on how matters affect his poll standing, his political stature.<\/p>\n<p>So he fires up the rally crowd. He gets lots of laughs and cheers when blasts Democrats who he calls the &#8220;Dims.&#8221; The crowd launches into a &#8220;Lock her up!&#8221; as it regards Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her role in keeping secret a complaint brought by a woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>All this happened today while Americans are fighting for their lives trying to fend off the overpowering savagery brought to them by Hurricane Michael.<\/p>\n<p>Sickening.<\/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>A monstrous hurricane blasted ashore today in the Florida Panhandle. It then stormed into Alabama and Georgia, heading for the still-suffering Carolinas, where it will do even more damage. So, what did the president of the United States do? Donald Trump decided to rev up his political base at a rally in Pennsylvania. I get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Campaigning while Americans are suffering?<\/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":[1424,8033],"class_list":["post-32751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hurricane-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751","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=32751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32753,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32751\/revisions\/32753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}