{"id":13088,"date":"2020-10-02T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/its-all-about-character-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T18:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T18:23:45","slug":"its-all-about-character-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/its-all-about-character-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s All About Character"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase coined by James Carville during the 1992 presidential election. It has been quoted and paraphrased numerous times over the years. I’m sure I’m not the first to see that it could be changed to \u201cIt’s about character, <\/em>stupid\u201d to describe the essence of the current election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion ending Donald Trump’s tenure is a more urgent need than any other political issues or policies in question. With even a small measure of leadership, sanity and common sense those other problems can be dealt with later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u00a0admit \u00a0I \u00a0disagree quite strongly\u00a0with some of the positions and leanings of the Democratic\u00a0Party, but\u00a0in\u00a0this case I am willing\u00a0to compromise. As I’ve stated elsewhere,\u00a0I\u00a0voted for\u00a0the Republican ticket\u00a0in\u00a0thirteen of the last fifteen presidential elections. With minimal\u00a0research,\u00a0you could discover\u00a0I was on the\u00a0losing side eight of \u00a0those\u00a0 fifteen times. But prior to 2016, I retained full respect for the winning candidate. I\u00a0would have willingly\u00a0stood and saluted any one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u00a0is not enough\u00a0space\u00a0and no need\u00a0to\u00a0list\u00a0all\u00a0the reasons\u00a0Trump is incapable of leading\u00a0this\u00a0country, and narrowing the divide that exists. You\u00a0already know\u00a0all of\u00a0that. So\u00a0please give serious\u00a0thought\u00a0to\u00a0who you think \u00a0has the common sense and\u00a0type\u00a0of\u00a0character you want\u00a0in the\u00a0highest office in the country. And in any case, please exercise your right to\u00a0vote. It may be said that in Tennessee, voting for anyone other than\u00a0a Republican is a\u00a0wasted vote. It is my\u00a0contention there is no such thing as a wasted vote—unless it’s a vote not cast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a phrase coined by James Carville during the 1992 presidential election. It has been quoted and paraphrased numerous times over the years. I’m sure I’m not the first to see that it could be changed to \u201cIt’s about character, stupid\u201d to describe the essence of the current election. In my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":13089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302,240],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}