{"id":51048,"date":"2022-03-29T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51048"},"modified":"2022-03-29T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:30:04","slug":"that-was-no-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51048","title":{"rendered":"That was no &#8216;gaffe&#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\">Allow me this dissent on the notion that President Biden committed some sort of \u201cgaffe\u201d when he said Vladimir Putin \u201ccannot remain in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics and even some Biden supporters keep bloviating about the president\u2019s remarks in Warsaw the other day in which he said, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They refer to them as \u201cthose nine unscripted words\u201d that got Biden into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>I disagree. I didn\u2019t read into those words that Biden was calling specifically for regime change. He was offering his opinion on the thuggish behavior coming from the Kremlin. Joe Biden knows better than to contradict decades of U.S. foreign policy. He knows that the United States is not going to seek to remove the Russian despot from his perch.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking the truth. Indeed, Putin \u2014 the architect of the brutal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine \u2014 \u201ccannot remain in power.\u201d Whether he gets ousted depends on whether Russians are willing to make that move.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to give President Biden a pass on what he said in Warsaw. His remarks only tightened the screws on Putin. What is wrong with that?<\/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>Allow me this dissent on the notion that President Biden committed some sort of \u201cgaffe\u201d when he said Vladimir Putin \u201ccannot remain in office.\u201d Critics and even some Biden supporters keep bloviating about the president\u2019s remarks in Warsaw the other day in which he said, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, this man cannot remain in power.\u201d They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That was no &#8216;gaffe&#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":[2505,9899,5125],"class_list":["post-51048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048","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=51048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51049,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048\/revisions\/51049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}