{"id":37151,"date":"2019-05-25T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37151"},"modified":"2019-05-25T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:50:39","slug":"trump-stands-as-proof-that-anyone-can-become-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37151","title":{"rendered":"Trump stands as proof that ‘anyone’ can become POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A young U.S. senator from Illinois stood before the 2004 Democratic National Convention and said, “Only in this country is my story even possible.”<\/p>\n

His name was Barack Obama, a self-proclaimed “skinny kid with a funny name.” He was an African-American man born in Hawaii to a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya. There he was, delivering the keynote speech to Democrats who would nominate Sen. John Kerry to run against President Bush.<\/p>\n

Four years later, that senator would run for president himself. Millions of Americans voted proudly for him. I was one of those Americans. Sen. Obama became President<\/em> Obama and demonstrated that, indeed, “anyone could be elected president.”<\/p>\n

Obama set the standard for political improbability.\u00a0Eight years after that, though, another man smashed that standard to smithereens.<\/p>\n

Donald John Trump Sr. had never sought public office. He had never devoted a minute of his adult life in service to the public. His entire life had been built with one goal: to enrich himself.<\/p>\n

He was a huckster supreme. He sold us a bill of goods. He talked about his brilliant business acumen. Trump told us he would do for the country what he did for himself. He would make America great again. All by himself, too!<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, this charlatan managed to capture enough Electoral College votes to defeat a profoundly more qualified candidate, former U.S. senator\/secretary of state\/first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n

Now he wants a second term as POTUS. I must ask this question: Is this clown going to fool us yet again?<\/p>\n

Trump has managed to denigrate damn near every institution he has touched. He has hurled insults. Trump has tossed out innuendo after innuendo.<\/p>\n

Trump has failed time and time again to demonstrate a shred of humanity. He lacks the basic elements of empathy. He cannot tell the truth at any level.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has proven without a doubt that in this country, “Anyone can be elected president.”<\/p>\n

If this individual manages to win re-election in 2020, then we all must live with the truism we hear from time to time:<\/p>\n

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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