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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 7 years ago

Why do you think that Jay Carney resigned his position?

I mean he couldn't have been fired, right? He was too good at covering for Obama. Was he just tired of lying?

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  • 7 years ago
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    He was tired of lying to people.

    He had no sense of humor and it was painful to watch him all the time, really painful. Did that man even know how to smile? He seemed more like an accountant in personality than a PR guy. Glad he is gone. Maybe H+R Block will hire him to do people's taxes, that is a good fit for him.

  • Sarah
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Because it's very typical for press secretaries to work 2-3 years before moving on.

    As the facts and evidence show, Obama has had two press secretaries in 6 years. No surprise that Bush also had two press secretaries in 6 years. I don't recall the same conspiracy theories from republicans when Scott McClellan resigned.

    2001–2003 Ari Fleischer George W. Bush

    2003–2006 Scott McClellan

    2006–2007 Tony Snow

    2007–2009 Dana Perino

    2009–2011 Robert Gibbs Barack Obama

    2011–2014 Jay Carney

  • 7 years ago

    Press secretaries usually don't stay as long as Carney did. Its a very stressful, time consuming job and in his case, he had to weigh every single word he said even more so than most press secretaries do. Of course, this is a man who has old propaganda posters from the USSR era hanging on his kitchen wall. I'm sure the replacement will be just as bad.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Liberals will spin, this is common place for White House personal.. While true, I believe the pressure of having to keep lying for Obama, just got to be too much for him. Liberals will deny this, but as the various investigations continue into the many Obama scandals, the heat on Obama is going through the roof. It was just a matter of time before Carney lost it on live TV and spilled his guts.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    He may have finally found a conscience. Not likely but possible.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    He really started to lose it. He was making a huge jackass out of himself and maybe he finally realized that. His reputation is forever tainted

  • Mike W
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Maybe he started to miss his dignity.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Probably not for the reason so many think.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    i don't know.

    "as harsh as this sounds--your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights," says joe the plumber

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