John Kerry and Barack Obama: A Dangerous Foreign Policy Duo
John Kerry, the man who failed to become president in no small measure because his foreign policy ideas scared the heck out of Americans, was determined to get even at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last night. He delivered an angry, derisive speech, which he hopes will catapult him into the position of secretary of State under a second Obama administration. Along with the few lines that the president devoted to foreign relations, the tag team’s performance was a stark reminder of the serious dangers which an Obama-Kerry duo would pose to our national security.
In the presidential debates eight years ago, John Kerry was the man who championed a “global test” for legitimizing American action to protect our country. At the centerpiece of this global test was the United Nations. In his view, earning approval abroad was essential to an America deserving of respect.
On September 30, 2004, Kerry insisted that any use by a president of the option of a “preemptive strike” must be done “in a way…that passes the global test where…you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.” “You don’t help yourself with other nations,” he said, “when you refuse to deal at length with the United Nations.”
Imagine having to prove to the thugs running UN states – a majority of which are not democratic – that a president’s actions to protect Americans are legitimate.
Like so many others, Kerry the presidential candidate connected venerating the UN with denigrating the United States: “…with other nations…you have to earn [their] respect. And I think we have a lot of earning back to do.” No wonder that yesterday Kerry was stumping center-stage for a president who bowed to a Saudi king.
Kerry’s defense of Obama’s foreign policy, and the specter the two men presented of the next four years, were alarming yet familiar. Kerry told the DNC that before the era of Obama “our moral authority was in tatters. America was isolated in the world.” Apparently we will know if America has moral authority by asking folks like the Russians and the Chinese. And then Kerry had the audacity to worry about outsourcing – having just outsourced adjudicating America’s “moral authority” to the rest of the world.
The irony is that Kerry defended the president by bragging: “Our forces have eliminated more of [al-Qaeda’s] leadership in the last three years than in all the eight years that came before.” Someone ought to tell him that his buddies at the UN have repeatedly called such activities morally reprehensible “extrajudicial execution.” To paraphrase the senator, before Barack Obama debates Mitt Romney on foreign policy, he better finish the debate over whose values he really cares about with himself.
Kerry repeated the empty mantra that President Obama “promised always to stand with Israel” – for which he felt he had to offer proof (with good reason). So he reached back to quote Prime Minister Netanyahu in March 2012. Then the Israeli leader expressed the view that Obama shared Israel’s policy on Iran. Evidently Kerry has been offline for the past two weeks.
Swift Boat Kerry (and his wifey too) has never met a thuggish dictator he hasn’t become cozy up with. In fact, wifey, through her Tides Foundation, is up to her neck in Soros ‘reconstruction/deconstruction’ projects – of America!
Alas, he is part of the ‘realist’ school of thought, ala Jimbo – fu-k the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway – Baker.
And, Teresa has enormous influence over him because she controls major purse strings.Between the two of them they can create mega anti-American mischief, pretending they are the most patriotic couple in Washington.
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/02/revealed-the-second-term-plans-of-an-obama-presidency-nothing-short-of-a-national-nightmare-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
This duo would be very much part of the second term plan nightmare!
Obama has been obsessed with the UN. That is one of the biggest failures of his administration. After all, it’s a lot easier to do nothing and hand over all decision making to the UN rather than doing the hard work of leading the free world. Ronald Reagan was crucified in the mainstream media for his desire to win the Cold War against the Soviet Union. But Reagan was a leader and didn’t care what the mainstream media said. Reagan led the crusade against the Soviet Union and, guess what? He won. That’s what leaders do. They lead and win. Too bad Obama never understood this lesson.
Lurch couldn’t fill one of the Hildebeast’s A-cups.
The Winter Soldier meets Choom Diplomacy.
Ketchup on arugula.
All 57 states will be in great hands, and our corpse will follow this leadership without hesitation or reservation.
Let’s call a voice vote for approval.
Poor senator Heinz –honey trap of all time –before he dies in a private plane crash, he becomes possibly the first and only dynastic fortune placeholder to sign the whole thing over to a spouse –this pert young interpreter at the UN, native of South Africa.
New hub Kerry had honeymooned with wife #1 in Paris –during the Paris Peace Talks, where this astounding person met in secret with the North Vietnamese delegation.
And don’t miss his freshman senatorial trip to Nicaragua, where communist strongman Danny Ortega delivered to Kerry a promise that if he could stop the congressional funding of the anti-communist contras, Danny would not take any money from the USSR.
So Kerry goes home waving a Chamberlainish piece of paper (he’d no doubt never heard of Chamberlain, or WWII), stops the funding, congress goes home for the summer, and Danny hops on an Ilyushin and flies to Moscow to pick up his 500 million in 1980-ish dollars, earmarked to eradicate the contras and build a MiG base on the Isthmus near the Canal.
Kerry was ”mad as hell”, said Kerry.
And then soon Kerry was able to uncover ”Iran/Contra” –Reagan’s effort to keep the contras from being massacred due to that lack of funding –and with the help of the Watergate Corps was able to ruin Reagan II and its legislative agenda.
And that’s just his post ”Genghis Khan” tally, doesn’t even get him to the late 80s yet.
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But even if no communist symp career had ever played out with this chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, that freakish botox and haircut fetish would be enough reason to keep him out of the SoS’s office.
I just can’t figure out what the devil is wrong with Massachusetts –it’s like a Kremlin colony fer chrissake. Loooong way from the Minutemen, it is.
Wrong
We gladly allied with oppressive French and Spanish regimes because we couldn’t do the job on our own
PS, at least we’ll know what this former naval person’s Secretary of State mission will be: get enough of our carrier battle groups sunk to send the rest of them to the mothball ports.
Wow. Wow wow wow.
So Obama was either the desgnated heir or the backup plan.
Hayden’s thuggery re Chicago 68 got the SDS a seat at the table by 72;
apparently Boston Ghengis and IRA Ted have been coordinating with Russian spy Alinsky’s Chicago for a long time.
I never knew Madam Binh’s tool also staged the antiContra campaign to protect Dem puppets in So. America.
The Dem soviet creates ‘allies’ and funds them with Cartel laundering.
I’ve met 3 vets who each said he was w.ierd, wierd, justs spends nights getting pass-out drunk in Navy bars in Charleston. Sure gotta wonder about Heinz’ plane accident.
yah –sometimes it seems so obvious –Gorby closes down the USSR and immediately fires up ”Green Cross” in Geneva and San Francisco and soon the hard-edged political types with no visible means of support are flooding into the environmental organizations and soon enough, well here we are, shutting down American energy production and transferring our wealth –and sovereignty –to enemy exporters. As soon as the cash flow dwindles and we the people are fighting each other over food, the transferees will come over as UN peacekeeper armies –and drill, mine, farm, and ranch the dickens out of the pristine garden we’ve been holding for them. After they put the green movement in the psychiatric camps, o course.
BTW –here’s that trip to Managua. Tom Harkin, also a frosh senator, and the Mrs, were along. Here it looks like they are about to propose something indecent to El Commandante.
I didn’t have the heart to watch ten seconds of Kerry for all the reasons outlined here, it was all predictable, unavoidable, already known, already baked in the cake.
bl @ 5: I just can’t figure out what the devil is wrong with Massachusetts
Interesting question. They’ve been suffering from industrial meltdown since before WWII, and they were afflicted by Kennedies, apparently trapping them in a 1960 time warp. MIT and Harvard are their jewels, but academia has not helped much in a couple of generations. I guess they’re just scrod.
Indeed it was predictable. Kerry has been exuding Sec State ambition for years. I’m sure he cried when Hillary got it, and he’ll have a fit if Romney is elected. Oh, how sweet it would be to see the ambitions of that dumb, coattail-hanging, fortune-marrying, anti-American opportunist destroyed.
”trapped in a time warp” –i believe you’re onto something. Except maybe it was the era between Prohibition and Pearl Harbor. Rumrunning became the crime that wasn’t, and the winner’s wink and nod sent Hitlerite Old Joe to London as ambassador to the Court of St. James, and the Brahmins to locking out the moral chaos via Ode to the Little Guy –the 30s Bolshevik-spellbound philosophers of the arts and academia. The political expression was the perpetual motion machine parked just outside the busy moral universe, chugging along on tradition, where the tradition is to stick with the tradition. Ergo the procession of the Kerry type.
Old Joe was also appointed by FDR as first head of the SEC.
Kinda helps explain todays markets.
(ps- Glass of Glass-Steagall was a Republican, hint hint)
The patrician old-money Franklin Roosevelt apparently judged the arriviste, social climbing Joe Kennedy correctly all along the time of Kennedy’s upward mobility moves.
When an adviser to Roosevelt questioned why FDR appointed him to the S.E.C., of all places, Roosevelt allegedly replied, “It takes one to know one.”
I agree, it’s Academia that has ruined this place.
(Nice use of the subjunctive pluperfect, btw!)
Thanks, Allston. Sometimes i’m two tense to try it –
(*groan*)
Enjoyable repartee. Massachusetts has been a larger version of SF for a long time. My dad was from Brookline. I lived in Brighton and at Brandeis during grad school. Interesting that my aunt was a Republican, as was my grandfather. So is my first cousin, who loves Boston fervently..
Small world indeed. I currently reside in Brookline, have family from Brighton, and grew up in Newton.
One of the media’s many, many failures was in vetting Kerry. No one ever asked why Harvard Law rejected Kerry. He married into a family of Boston Brahmins and should have been admitted as a matter of family right. He even had Kennedy backing. We may never know whether it was cheating, drugs, womanizing (homosexuality would not have been disqualifying at Harvard), but Harvard wouldn’t have him. Farther Drinan took at his lesser law school.
The timing doesn’t fit, but wouldn’t it be a wonderful story if Kerry had been rejected by Harvard Law so a Kenyan born, foreign student from Indonesia, Barry Soetero, could be admitted under an affirmative action quota?
LOL –but Kerry is old enough to be one of Obama’s dreaming fathers. You just can’t see it because, like that waxworks monstrosity Joe Biden-like thing last night, these he-men flock like birds to Dr. Dorian Gray whenever a wrinkle appears, a hair comes unscrewed, or a loud noise causes a dermalanch up on the face there somewhere below timberline.
You mean, they haven’t hung this traitor and gigolo yet?
#8 No, unfortunately, not yet.
Drones Over America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krO566t8y-E
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
Hoax and Chains…..Communists on parade
NAGR Update on UN Gun Ban
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ypt4wl4Cac&feature=player_embedded
Thanks, I’ll take my chances with Obama. Romney WILL lead us to war with Iran, a war that is neither necessary, affordable, or in our best interests.
Talk to the staff at Walter Reed. They’ve already got too much to do with all the casualties from Afghanistan. We don’t need more wounded warriors from another war started by a draft-dodger who couldn’t even be bothered to thank our troops for their service in his acceptance speech in Tampa.
Yeah, the Democrats suck at stuff like guns and immigration. But the culture wars are lost, and I’m now voting out of pure economic self-interest.
That ”in our best interests” is pretty much unknowable. i wish it were otherwise, but i’d have to be inside a whole bunch of foreign heads to know –and then i’d be speaking to myself in a language i can’t speak.
I can’t figure it out even in English. Sometimes it’s useful to start eliminating the worst ideas. One of which is letting your friends count on you then changing your mind. This will put the world as Alaric at your children’s Roman gate, if not at your own.
Those young folks at Walter Reed, high up on a mountain of pain and heartache though they are, there’s still one more grievous injury we the people can ask them to endure –and that’s to make their sacrifice have been in vain. Also, they will be the first to remind us, they are not forest rangers, or postal workers, or EPA inspectors –they’re soldiers.
But yes, the whole topic is terrible to behold. There were voices out there, telling Obama that instead of extending the Dem patronage bonanza a meager year or two longer, he could’ve built 1000 rather than 100 F-22s with just a fraction of the no-gain cash burn we still have to pay, and the 1000 F-22s would have changed the geopolitical picture from night to day. And done wonders to lighten that workload at Walter Reed –you don’t have to fight if you’re too strong to lose.
‘..economic self-interest’.
If that’s TRULY the case you’ve been paying NO ATTENTION the last 5 + years!
With QE4 around the bend.. good luck, brother.
Kerry should relocate to Paris. I’m sure his wife could afford it; and take Jane Fonda with him. I believe Gertrude Stein (a crypto Nazi) summed it up; a schmuck is a schmuck is a schmuck. Or maybe it was Soupy Sales.
Pompous (and dangerous) clown…
Just for shites and giggles I did a quick search for pompous and lo and behold who should be at the top of the search? Why none other than ole pomp(ous) and circumstance hiz-self – John Kerry.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Pompous&ei=UTF-8&fr=chr-greentree_ff&type=867034
I had a hunch he’d be somewhere on that first page – little did I know…
Reminds me of when I did a search on dumbest senator – who else would pop up but my own US senator Patty Murray. If the shoe fits…
Kerry has lived in a reality distortion bubble for the last 3 decades and it shows, heavily.
He is an even more empty suit that Obama who can at least read from a teleprompter with conviction.
Swanning around on your yacht in tax havens, spending your wifes money whilst whining like a 2 year old about others refusal to pay “there fair share” IS NOT enough to be Sec of State.
Our enemies will have NO RESPECT for Kerry and will chew him up and spit him out.
Our friends will have NO RESPECT for Kerry and will humour him in public like an idiot cousin who compulsively picks his nose, in private they will ignore his recommendations and seek to exploit his weakness for their own advantage.
NO-ONE respects “empty suits”.
Obama Mentions Compromise, Then Lists What ‘I Refuse to Go Along With’
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-mentions-compromise-then-lists-what-i-refuse-go-along
Kerry is a serial fabulist, his convention speech chock full of baseless assertions which bear no relation to reality — much like his Winter Soldier testimony and his tales of covert holiday excursions into wartime Cambodia.
In my grandfather’s day, treating with the enemy in Paris would have earned him exile, labor in Leavenworth, or worse. We are no longer serious people.
“Crazy, Crazy Kerry”
Kerry thought Barrack was God!
“You ‘little people’ should be awed!
“You’re Savior’s triumphs you should laud!”
Crazy Kerry!
Kerry said, “BO won the war!”
“And killed the villain at his door,
“The Seals were ‘BACKUP’, nothing more!”
Crazy, crazy Kerry!
Kerry said, “BO’s Israel’s friend”
“His ‘bestest buddies’ till the end,
But the bombs they ask for, we won’t send!”
Crazy, Crazy Kerry!
Kerry needs a lengthy rest,
From the socialists that he loves best,
At the DNC, he was a LOUSY GUEST!
Crazy, Crazy Kerry!
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