{"id":9585,"date":"2015-06-03T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9585"},"modified":"2015-06-03T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:03:12","slug":"feeling-badly-about-scolding-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9585","title":{"rendered":"Feeling badly about scolding Obama"},"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>Let&#8217;s assume for a moment that my prediction that Donald Trump won&#8217;t run for president next year turns out to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If he does declare his candidacy, I might be forced to eat some crow regarding my recent scolding of President Obama for using the first-person singular pronoun too liberally while accepting credit for the good things he&#8217;s done as president.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama is a piker compared to The Donald.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told the Des Moines Register that he&#8217;s the &#8220;most successful candidate ever to run&#8221; for president. He declared &#8220;the American dream is dead,&#8221; and then said he&#8217;d bring it back all my himself. He said he&#8217;d wipe out the Islamic State quickly and its elimination would be a &#8220;beautiful thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh!<\/p>\n<p>Can this guy really and truly be serious? Is he really, honestly going to run for president and use his immense personal wealth as a reason to elect him?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, I don&#8217;t want to take back what I said, but I will if Donald Trump declares his intention to succeed you in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>My head is about to explode.<\/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>Let&#8217;s assume for a moment that my prediction that Donald Trump won&#8217;t run for president next year turns out to be wrong. If he does declare his candidacy, I might be forced to eat some crow regarding my recent scolding of President Obama for using the first-person singular pronoun too liberally while accepting credit for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9585\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feeling badly about scolding Obama<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[73,540,1424,1958],"class_list":["post-9585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-campaign","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-nomination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585","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=9585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}