{"id":35218,"date":"2019-02-02T01:33:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35218"},"modified":"2019-02-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T01:35:03","slug":"now-what-about-a-potus-who-said-some-nasty-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35218","title":{"rendered":"Now, what about a POTUS who said some nasty things?"},"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>Virginia Republicans need to tread carefully.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, has apologized for appearing in a racist photograph showing two men &#8212; one in blackface and the other in a KKK-style costume. The Virginia GOP has called for his immediate resignation.<\/p>\n<p>I agree that Northam should resign.<\/p>\n<p>However . . .<\/p>\n<p>Just a word of advice to the state Republican Party is in order. The nation&#8217;s Top Republican, Donald Trump, said in 2017 that there were &#8220;good people&#8221; who belonged to white supremacist groups, Nazis and Klansmen who protested the removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va.<\/p>\n<p>Will they hold the president to account for that hideous assertion?<\/p>\n<p><em>Ever?<\/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>Virginia Republicans need to tread carefully. The state&#8217;s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, has apologized for appearing in a racist photograph showing two men &#8212; one in blackface and the other in a KKK-style costume. The Virginia GOP has called for his immediate resignation. I agree that Northam should resign. However . . . Just a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35218\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now, what about a POTUS who said some nasty things?<\/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":[8075,7240,1424,2692,3808],"class_list":["post-35218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-blackface","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-kkk","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218","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=35218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35220,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35218\/revisions\/35220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}