{"id":44132,"date":"2020-08-24T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44132"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:04:59","slug":"wanting-to-respect-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44132","title":{"rendered":"Wanting to respect POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not proud to admit what I am about to admit … but here it comes.<\/p>\n

I detest feeling as I do whenever Donald Trump shows his face on my TV screen. Accordingly, it is my sincere hope that we can — and will — elect a president who doesn’t turn me off the way the current president does.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has spoken at length and quite eloquently about the need to restore decency to the presidency. He wants to infuse the office with a sense of compassion that has been missing for about, oh, the past three-plus years.<\/p>\n

Thus, when I see Donald Trump on my TV screen, my first impulse is to turn away. I no longer want to hear anything he has to say. I don’t trust him to tell me the truth. I figure when a politician loses my trust in his or her truthfulness then there is utterly no point in devoting a moment of my attention to anything he says.<\/p>\n

I want to trust the president to tell me the truth. I want that individual — and I do hope it is Joe Biden after the next election in November — to speak candidly and honestly to me.<\/p>\n

The Republican National Convention today nominated Trump for a second term as president. That’s the RNC’s call.<\/p>\n

I am not going to listen to Donald Trump. My mind is made up. To be candid, Trump lost me the moment he declared his presidential candidacy in June 2015. I had harbored plenty of hope that some legitimate Republicans would defeat him in the GOP primary. I retained the hope that Hillary Clinton would defeat him in the general election.<\/p>\n

Silly me.<\/p>\n

I am left now to hope for the moment when respect returns to the presidency.<\/p>\n\n

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