{"id":33242,"date":"2018-11-03T01:44:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33242"},"modified":"2018-11-03T01:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:44:26","slug":"obama-asks-why-are-the-winners-still-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33242","title":{"rendered":"Obama asks: Why are the winners still angry?"},"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>Yamiche Alcindor, a correspondent for PBS, posted this Twitter message earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"list-style: none; text-align: left; color: #1c2022; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Roboto,'Segoe UI',Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: pre-wrap; cursor: text; direction: ltr; word-wrap: break-word; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\">Pres Obama as protesters heckle him in Miami: &#8220;Why is it that the folks who won the election are so mad all the time? &#8230; Like when I won the presidency, at least my side felt pretty good. It tells you something interesting, that even the folks that are in charge are still mad.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former president ventured to South Florida to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillem and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, another Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>He encountered hecklers. He engaged them directly.\u00a0 The former president does pose an interesting question. The folks who oppose him and the candidates he supports are those who <em>won<\/em> the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>They and their political party control the White House and both legislative chambers of Congress. They&#8217;re in charge! It&#8217;s their show!<\/p>\n<p>Yet they&#8217;re still angry? What gives?<\/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>Yamiche Alcindor, a correspondent for PBS, posted this Twitter message earlier today. Pres Obama as protesters heckle him in Miami: &#8220;Why is it that the folks who won the election are so mad all the time? &#8230; Like when I won the presidency, at least my side felt pretty good. It tells you something interesting, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama asks: Why are the winners still angry?<\/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":[74,540],"class_list":["post-33242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242","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=33242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33243,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242\/revisions\/33243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}