Kerry Defends Obama’s Travels: His Schedule Isn’t ‘Set By Terrorists’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media after a meeting with Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel at the Prime Minister's residence in Brussels, Belgium, Friday, March 25, 2016. Kerry is holding cou... U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the media after a meeting with Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel at the Prime Minister's residence in Brussels, Belgium, Friday, March 25, 2016. Kerry is holding counterterrorism talks in Brussels on Friday as top members of Belgium's embattled government face ongoing criticism for a series of security and intelligence failings in the run-up to this week's bomb attacks in the city that killed 31 people and wounded 270. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert) MORE LESS
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Secretary of State John Kerry defended President Barack Obama traveling in the midst of an attack in Brussels in an interview aired Sunday by saying that the President’s scheduled isn’t “set by terrorists.”

CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson asked Kerry how he would to those who criticized Obama for not suspending his planned trip to Cuba and Argentina in light of the attacks in Brussels.

Kerry turned to Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer.

“My response is to quote Charles Krauthammer, you don’t — the President of the United States’ schedule is not set by terrorists. The President of the United States has major diplomatic responsibilities. He has to engage with other countries,” Kerry said. “You know, life doesn’t stop because one terrible incident takes place in one place.”

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  1. All we heard during the reign of Oedipus Tex was “don’t let the Muslin Terriers disrupt your life.” President Obama didn’t. The President had prior commitments that he carried through. Nothing that happened in Brussels had anything to do with the President of the United States. Contrary to American misconceptions, the world does not view the U. S. President as “Leader of the Free World.”

    Prime Minister Cameron went on holiday as scheduled. Queen Elizabeth, the night of the attack, went out to dinner in a public restaurant with her daughter and cousin. The British get it. (Probably all those years of Nazi raids and IRA attacks).

    The complaints about the President seem to be two-fold. One - he’s a two term President, despite the best Republican efforts. Two - he was visiting two countries the Republicans think are unimportant. I guess he should have followed the precedent set by Oedipus Tex and have run and hid at an “undisclosed location.”

  2. Secretary of State John Kerry defended President Barack Obama traveling in the midst of an attack in Brussels in an interview aired Sunday by saying that the President's scheduled isn't "set by terrorists."

    Fused participle. Try “defended President Barack Obama’s traveling in the midst of an attack in Brussels.”

  3. That meme is condescending, isn’t it?

  4. As annoying as the “Commander in Chief” meme that the Republicans started using post 9/11. C-in-C is just one of the many duties listed in the Constitution. C-in-C isn’t his title, President is.

  5. Oedipus Tex struggling to contain the Terrier threat…can you believe
    this defective P.O.S. was actually the C.I.C.?

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