{"id":53243,"date":"2022-10-12T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53243"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:17:39","slug":"potus-has-bigger-fish-to-fry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53243","title":{"rendered":"POTUS has bigger fish to fry"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53245\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/biden.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Butt out. Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has weighed in on what is a quintessential <em>local<\/em> problem. It involves members of the Los Angeles City Council who were caught saying some nasty things about fellow Los Angelinos, namely Black, Asian and indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>Folks throughout LA are up in arms. They are demanding their resignation. As they should.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/president-biden-calls-on-all-participants-of-racist-la-city-council-leaked-audio-to-resign\/ar-AA12QijR?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=08d2d8625cee4ab2cae4822329ea6bb4\">President Biden calls on all participants of racist LA City Council leaked audio to resign (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what is the president of the United States going to contribute by offering his own view on it? Is he trying to lend the huge weight of his office to this fight? &#8220;He believes that they all should resign,&#8221; White House press secretary Karine\u00a0Jean-Pierre said. &#8220;The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was\u00a0unacceptable and it was appalling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, fine. Let him believe it to his heart&#8217;s content. President Biden need not weigh in on an issue that should be resolved<em> exclusively<\/em> at City Hall. The president of the United States has many other more pressing issues to ponder that involve protecting the rest of the country he was elected to govern.<\/p>\n<p 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>Butt out. Mr. President. Joe Biden has weighed in on what is a quintessential local problem. It involves members of the Los Angeles City Council who were caught saying some nasty things about fellow Los Angelinos, namely Black, Asian and indigenous people. Folks throughout LA are up in arms. They are demanding their resignation. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS has bigger fish to fry<\/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":[9597,9,13],"tags":[2505,10041,3808],"class_list":["post-53243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-local-news","category-national-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-la-city-council","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243","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=53243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53246,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53243\/revisions\/53246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}