{"id":9403,"date":"2015-05-19T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:21:05","slug":"welcome-to-the-twitter-verse-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9403","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Twitter-verse, Mr. President"},"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>Barack Obama wanted, I guess, to show the world how hip he has become.<\/p>\n<p>So he opened a Twitter account and tweeted a message out there.<\/p>\n<p>What follows below is a small sample of the &#8220;welcome&#8221; responses received by the president of the United States of America, leader of the Free World and the most well-known and easily recognized individual on Planet Earth:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.addictinginfo.org\/2015\/05\/18\/welcome-to-twitter-ngger-righties-go-full-racist-potus-twitter-account-tweets\/<\/p>\n<p>Were there other messages like that? Oh, more than likely.<\/p>\n<p>Racism lives on. Probably forever.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t even summarize what&#8217;s contained in the messages shown on the link. Just seeing the operative word &#8212; let alone hearing it &#8212; makes me shudder.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the president did get some actual welcome messages. Indeed, as soon as I finish this brief post, I&#8217;m likely to send one myself.<\/p>\n<p>But as the link notes, the president and his family are handling this display of hate: &#8220;If this doesn\u2019t tell you that Barack Obama has handled the unprecedented disrespect and outright hatred directed at him from right-wing racists with the utmost grace and dignity, I don\u2019t know what will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Barack Obama wanted, I guess, to show the world how hip he has become. So he opened a Twitter account and tweeted a message out there. What follows below is a small sample of the &#8220;welcome&#8221; responses received by the president of the United States of America, leader of the Free World and the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the Twitter-verse, Mr. President<\/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":[10],"tags":[540,3688,3808,4932],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-potus","tag-racism","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","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=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}