{"id":51034,"date":"2022-03-27T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T13:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51034"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T13:07:33","slug":"biden-speaks-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51034","title":{"rendered":"Biden &#8216;speaks his mind&#8217;?"},"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 class=\"has-drop-cap\">Michael Kinsley, the liberal columnist and one-time TV commentator, once famously quipped that a \u201cgaffe\u201d occurs when a politician \u201cspeaks his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So it is, then, that President Biden well might have been speaking his own mind when during a speech in Poland he said that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin \u201ccannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oops, Mr. President. You\u2019ve just spoken against U.S. policy, which supposedly forbids any effort to bring about \u201cregime change\u201d in a foreign government. Oh, but wait! Didn\u2019t we do that when we went to war in Afghanistan after 9\/11 and then went to war in Iraq less than two years later while hunting down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein?<\/p>\n<p>Both those efforts resulted in regime change. The Taliban, though, are back in power in Afghanistan; Saddam Hussein is dead, having been hanged for his crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is trying to take back what President Biden said, that our aim isn\u2019t to remove Putin from office even as we condemn him for launching his illegal, immoral and illogical invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to sweat much about what the president said. He was telling us what he thinks\u00a0<em>ought\u00a0<\/em>to happen, not necessarily predicting that it\u00a0<em>will<\/em>\u00a0happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Michael Kinsley, the liberal columnist and one-time TV commentator, once famously quipped that a \u201cgaffe\u201d occurs when a politician \u201cspeaks his mind.\u201d So it is, then, that President Biden well might have been speaking his own mind when during a speech in Poland he said that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin \u201ccannot remain in power.\u201d Oops, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51034\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden &#8216;speaks his mind&#8217;?<\/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":[5],"tags":[95,2334,2505,4069,4501,9899,5125],"class_list":["post-51034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-95","tag-iraq-war","tag-joe-biden","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-taliban","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034","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=51034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51035,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51034\/revisions\/51035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}