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Kerry: Governing Is Hard When You Have to Go on 'The View'
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Posted on 08/31/2016 2:59:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Kerry: Governing Is Hard When You Have to Go on 'The View'

5:06 PM, Aug 31, 2016 | By Chris Deaton

The way John Kerry sees it, there is no joy when the president goes on The View.

The secretary of state lamented the difficulty of governing in the modern media age during a visit to India Wednesday, nostalgically recalling the days "the big three" television networks owned the airwaves and assessing the burden of communicating the White House's message across a variety of media.

"If a president wants to talk to the nation, he or she has to go out and fight to find all kinds of different venues, which is why the President of the United States goes on The View and goes on David Letterman and goes on the night show and goes on whatever, in order to be able to talk to people in segments," Kerry said. "And it takes a lot longer to build it up, and you still have trouble getting people to be able assimilate and process facts."

The former presidential nominee said the diversified press made governing, including consensus-building, "harder". He took a particular shot at the "nanosecond" nature of Twitter—a much more rapid way of communicating than chatting during a coffee break the morning after the president delivered a speech.

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hanoijohn; johnkerry; kerry; nancyboy; secstate; soskerry; tehranjohn; traitor
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To: Sub-Driver

Governing is tough when you can be held accountable.


21 posted on 08/31/2016 3:18:36 PM PDT by Fhios (Progressives just don't know when to stop digging.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Democrats brought it on themselves. Anybody with a brain knows showbiz types are flaky and prefers keeping them quarantined to the off-duty hours.


22 posted on 08/31/2016 3:19:13 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: Steely Tom
I’m nostalgic for the days when the President of the United States loved our country, thought it was the greatest country in the world, and would never knowingly do anything to hurt us or to give comfort to our enemies.

I am too.

23 posted on 08/31/2016 3:21:43 PM PDT by sockhead
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To: Sub-Driver

The difference in how the President is treated on shows like the View is only dependent on which Party they Represent.


24 posted on 08/31/2016 3:22:03 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Creating Isis was supposed to be a secret. —
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/08/31/pelosi-memo-proves-trump-right-obamas-iraq-withdrawal-created-islamic-state/


25 posted on 08/31/2016 3:24:31 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s also hard when you’re a blithering idiot.


27 posted on 08/31/2016 3:31:56 PM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, John, it sucks that there are now millions of Gutenberg presses out there now instead of just three. Impossible for the Uniparty elitists like yourself to control that many, unlike the good ol’ days when you only had to extort three of ‘em to own the narrative.


28 posted on 08/31/2016 3:35:18 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry is tired of getting beaten up by girls.


29 posted on 08/31/2016 3:48:50 PM PDT by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Sub-Driver

30 posted on 08/31/2016 3:58:02 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Mr. K
How did this doofus avoid getting fragged by his own troops???

He didn't - he was blown up, and then stuffed with robotics.

Can't you tell?

31 posted on 08/31/2016 4:01:22 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a simpering little a$$hole!

The same guy who wore his fatigues to a Congressional hearing and lied about our soldiers killing babies like the Golden Horde(Genghis Khan). The people had a right to know! But now they do not. Their safety and security is no longer their own business.


32 posted on 08/31/2016 4:42:06 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: Sub-Driver

What’s really hard Kerry-Heinz is going through life stupid, not realizing it and thinking everyone is laughing “with you” rather than “at you”!


33 posted on 08/31/2016 5:38:32 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Just remember John-boy, if it wasn’t for marrying into wealth, you’d be just another drunk begging drinks in a bar telling war stories about how you worked for the CIA in Cambodia.


34 posted on 08/31/2016 5:42:11 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: Sub-Driver

*** “Du-fuss” ***

That served in Viet Nam
Purple Heart and Everything


35 posted on 08/31/2016 6:40:23 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Mr. K

*** “How did this doofus avoid getting fragged by his own troops??? ***

Wasn’t there long enough, but I’m sure it was on the menu


36 posted on 08/31/2016 6:41:40 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: TexasTransplant

Who was in Cambodia in 1968 under the rule of President Nixon.


37 posted on 08/31/2016 6:44:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sub-Driver

Does John f’n know that Letterman retired?


38 posted on 08/31/2016 8:03:58 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: dfwgator

Did you ever fly P-3’s?

I keep thinking that I may know you


39 posted on 08/31/2016 9:15:42 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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