{"id":34146,"date":"2018-12-11T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34146"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T12:42:52","slug":"the-best-are-great-the-worst-are-well-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34146","title":{"rendered":"The ‘best’ are great, the worst are, well, something else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump has shown an ability to hire a wide-ranging array of key administration officials. They run from the brightest of lights to the dimmest of bulbs.<\/p>\n

I consider Defense Secretary James Mattis to be among the stars of the Trump administration. He’s a retired four-star Marine Corps general; tested in combat. He’s dedicated to the defense of this country. Thoughtful, learned and a totally competent strategic thinker.<\/p>\n

I hope he stays for the duration of the Trump administration, although Mattis’s tenure is beginning to show signs of wobbliness.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the president’s latest selection to be our ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n

I am having difficulty wrapping my noggin around this one. Heather Nauert is nominated to be our nation’s top envoy on the world stage. Her credentials? None.<\/em> She has nothing to offer.<\/p>\n

Except for this: She once was a “news” personality on the Fox News News Channel, the president’s network of choice. She did a co-hosting gig on “Fox & Friends.” She dressed up in goofy costumes and acted totally, well, the way morning “news” talk show co-hosts often act.<\/p>\n

Then she got a job as spokeswoman for the State Department. You might be recall how she sought to praise U.S.-Germany relations by citing, for instance, the upcoming D-Day commemoration. D’oh! <\/em>Wait a second!<\/p>\n

Our guys fought the Germans to the death on the beaches at Normandy, France. We were at war.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the kind of “experience” the president sought when he named this person to be our advocate on at the United Nations.<\/p>\n

Weird, man.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump has shown an ability to hire a wide-ranging array of key administration officials. They run from the brightest of lights to the dimmest of bulbs. I consider Defense Secretary James Mattis to be among the stars of the Trump administration. He’s a retired four-star Marine Corps general; tested in combat. He’s dedicated to … Continue reading The ‘best’ are great, the worst are, well, something else<\/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],"tags":[1225,1312,1424,8204,6705,6865,5302],"class_list":["post-34146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-d-day","tag-defense-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-heather-nauert","tag-james-mattis","tag-un","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34146","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=34146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34147,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34146\/revisions\/34147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}