{"id":43622,"date":"2020-07-15T17:05:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43622"},"modified":"2020-07-15T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:12:34","slug":"is-this-kind-of-transition-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43622","title":{"rendered":"Is this kind of transition possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GWBush%20%23BarackObama&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I invite you to spend the next three or so minutes of your time watching the video I have attached to this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Then I want to invite you to imagine Donald John Trump issuing the same kind of statement to the individual who will succeed him as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Bush reacts to Obama&#039;s victory in 2008 election\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcOgwJ9uAMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I want it to be Joseph R. Biden Jr., who will face Trump in this year&#8217;s presidential election. If it&#8217;s not, then we&#8217;ll get to wait until November 2024 &#8212; and, yes, I shudder at that thought &#8212; to hear Donald Trump begin to hand over power to the next president.<\/p>\n<p>I just thought I would post this video to show you how a president is supposed to conduct himself when he prepares to leave the White House in the hands of someone he no doubt opposed philosophically, but who won a fair-and-square free election.<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect this kind of grace from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m on the subject, take a look at the next video. It&#8217;s a bit longer but it depicts President Obama talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama Full Speech on Donald Trump Win\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0SLfCkXDAf8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What you see in this video, as in the first one, is an example of a president calling the nation to put its differences aside, to wish the new president success and to assure a smooth transition.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, just try to imagine Donald Trump offering this to the individual who will succeed him.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=GWBush%20%23BarackObama&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invite you to spend the next three or so minutes of your time watching the video I have attached to this blog post. Then I want to invite you to imagine Donald John Trump issuing the same kind of statement to the individual who will succeed him as president of the United States. Oh, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this kind of transition possible?<\/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":[540,1899],"class_list":["post-43622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43622","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=43622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43625,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43622\/revisions\/43625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}