{"id":25554,"date":"2017-10-20T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25554"},"modified":"2017-10-20T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:42:43","slug":"why-cant-potus-speak-with-this-kind-of-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25554","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t POTUS speak with this kind of clarity?"},"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>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ps5ttDzWBaY<\/p>\n<p>John Kelly works for a guy who seems genetically incapable of speaking with moral certitude and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>When the president speaks about slain soldiers &#8220;knowing what they were getting into &#8230; but I guess it still hurts,&#8221; he comes off sounding like a heartless buffoon.<\/p>\n<p>When the White House chief of staff offers the same explanation over what his &#8220;best friend&#8221; told him after his son was killed in Afghanistan, he sounds dignified, heartfelt and sincere.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has opened the door yet again to a pointless and needless controversy. This time it centers on how the president sought to console a grieving widow whose husband died in a firefight in Niger several days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The president might have been motivated to do the right thing. Perhaps he <em>intended<\/em> to sound compassionate. My reading of what&#8217;s been reported about what he told Myeshia Johnson, whose husband Sgt. La David Johnson, died in Niger, tells me the president just isn&#8217;t good at fulfilling that role.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, Gen. Kelly manages to sound the right tone, despite his criticism of Rep. Frederica Wilson, who reported the content of the president&#8217;s phone conversation with Mrs. Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/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>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ps5ttDzWBaY John Kelly works for a guy who seems genetically incapable of speaking with moral certitude and clarity. When the president speaks about slain soldiers &#8220;knowing what they were getting into &#8230; but I guess it still hurts,&#8221; he comes off sounding like a heartless buffoon. When the White House chief of staff offers the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25554\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why can&#8217;t POTUS speak with this kind of clarity?<\/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":[5],"tags":[1424,6868,7377,5048,5246],"class_list":["post-25554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-kelly","tag-niger","tag-us-marine-corps","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554","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=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25555,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions\/25555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}