Secretary of State John Kerry?
It’s natural that the transition from a first presidential term to a second is an avenue for some cabinet members to make an undramatic exit.
The anticipated departure of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been predicted for some time — long before Benghazi — as she’s made clear she’s looking forward to this chapter ending and heading out the door.
This sets the stage for a dramatic entrance to fill the spot.
Imagine, if you will, Secretary of State John Kerry.
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — and failed 2004 presidential candidate — has long lusted after the prospect of becoming America’s top diplomat.
As chairman, the Massachusetts Democrat has already undertaken some self-appointed diplomatic missions, such as going to Pakistan to attempt a reset of relations and going to Egypt to talk “democratic transformation” with the Muslim Brotherhood.
And as committee chairman since taking over from Joe Biden in 2009, Kerry as secretary of State would go out into the world in a technically nonpartisan job with many deeply held policy positions clearly on his sleeve.
He’s pushed for the Law of the Sea Treaty, the New START arms-reduction treaty with Russia, and anything anti-climate change.
In what he billed as a “major” floor speech in June, Kerry slammed “a calculated campaign of disinformation [that] has steadily beaten back the consensus momentum for action on climate change and replaced it with timidity by proponents in the face of millions of dollars of phony, contrived ‘talking points,’ illogical and wholly unscientific propositions and a general scorn for the truth wrapped in false threats about job loss and taxes.”
In fact, he called climate change “as dangerous as any of the sort of real crises that we talk about” — Syria, Iran, or anything else on his committee’s plate.
Kerry has filled much of his time since his presidential outing penning pieces for Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and other outlets.
“It is the Democratic Party that almost all alone occupies that once bipartisan space in national security policy, and it is the Democratic Party that today offers the clear-eyed vision of how to best honor our ideas in the world, while the Republican Party, too often in the grips of hard-edged ideology and a determination above all else to defeat President Barack Obama, is almost unrecognizable from its previous incarnation,” he wrote in FP in September.
Kerry’s statements indicate that he would serve as a loyal stonewall for the administration in the event of a prolonged Benghazi investigation. While even some other Democrats have expressed concerns about the timeline in which lawmakers and the public were first told the terrorist attack was the result of protests over an anti-Muhammad video, Kerry has fully stood by the White House.
“Let me just make it crystal clear. The president issued the appropriate orders, issued the appropriate instructions. The president has followed this as closely as he does on a daily briefing,” Kerry said on CNN Oct. 22. “…And the president, I believe, has made the right decisions. This is much more complicated than meets the eye.”
The senator even lashed out at Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for releasing Benghazi documents that included the name of a Libyan activist who Democrats said could henceforth be in danger but whose name was already out in the open from State Department events.
“This is irresponsible and inexcusable, and perhaps worst of all it was entirely avoidable,” Kerry said. “It is profoundly against America’s interests in a difficult region.”
Kerry also ingratiated himself to President Obama by portraying former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in campaign debate prep — which didn’t go so well the first time out but picked up for the president in rounds two and three.
Though during the campaign he wasn’t exactly, shall we say, diplomatic, posting mocking tweets of Romney and even posting a picture of a robot with the words, “was surprised to run into Mitt this afternoon.”
So Mr. John (I’m a pompous ass) Kerry and his troll-like wife want to travel the world at the expense of the US taxpayer — er wait – they already do that.
Doesn’t a swing and a miss at POTUS eliminate one from being considered for SecState? So you think Obama made all the right decisions when it comes to foreign affairs up to this point John? Thats rich!
I don’t know what else to say except let these loons run the farm for 4 more years. What harm could there be in that? Want tax increases? OK. Want to harness the US with cap n tax? Sure. Anything you want – including letting Pompous Ass run SecState for a few years – whats the harm? My state has legalized pot and gay marriage – I’m going to petition the court to let me marry my dog – grow pot – and get the dog on SS – he is past 60 in dog years after all.
When you can’t beat em join em.
The west, in its entirety, is in for a whirlwind of trouble. And what we think we see from here, will be a whole lot worse from there – from deep inside their perches!
The amount of domestic and foreign mischief will be massive, the likes of which will make a whore blush. And this is not an overstatement. Not at all.
The entire regime is rife with revolutionaries, and they are in sync with the RED/GREEN alliance.
IF Kerry is Sec of State, and Chuckie Nagel is Sec of Def, then the last 4 yrs will seem like paradise. This is what happens when revolutionaries hold the entire reins of power -http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/10/07/when-authentic-revolutionaries-hold-the-reins-of-american-power-centers-via-the-most-radical-regime-in-u-s-history-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
America will not survive intact. A shell of itself.
I fear you are exactly correct. We are being destroyed from within rapidly.
That is why so many of our southern states that are usually pretty conservative are signing petitions to Obama and the federal government to secede.
Secretary of state? Nah. That’s not preposterous enough for the brain of “Benghazi” Obama. How about appointing a person to Secretary of DEFENSE, someone who testified before Congress that his fellow US soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen were all war criminals? To Secretary of Defense. That should easily qualify as one of the greatest ideas a US president has ever come up with [/s].
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-considers-john-kerry-for-job-of-defense-secretary/2012/11/12/8a0e973a-2d02-11e2-a99d-5c4203af7b7a_story.html
If John F. Kerry (who served in Vietnam) is chosen to replace Hillary Clinton, it’s not big deal. Kerry is a coward and a thoroughly corrupt politician which would be typical of this administration. Kerry is an anti-American ideologue and a fool. The North Koreans as an example, will eat his lunch! Kerry is such a plastic wimp, no doubt the Chinese and Russians will be more than happy to walk over his sorry, goat-smelling rear end! But, as I said, typical for 0bama and his Socialist regime of thugs, mugs, bugs and shrugs.
Kerry would be a perfect fit for the Obama administration. He’s already on record of lying to Congress, and he did it years before any of the current Obama goons did it. A great teaching moment.
Then we can all look to his presentation before Congress about his Vietnam experience (he did serve in Vietnam, in case you forget)wherein he violated the UCMJ before Congress and the cameras, but Fulbright couldn’t hold that against his star witness.
I’d prefer a rotten banana to Kerry.
Clown Kerry as Secretary of State? From one sick joke to another, how low can America go?
“…Dems may have a solution for his seat.”
If they do to him what they’ve done to us then he’ll need that.
In my wildest fever-dreams, I could not imagine a better choice, except that he’s White and reputedly heterosexual…and wealthy.
Although if the Kremlin would prefer Kerry in the Pentagon, then that would be even better.
Maybe Obama could rsurrect Van Jones for the Secretary of State job, nothing says “Diversity” like a Black Marxist Green-freak representing the face of the Obama Administration as we are “Treatied” into serfdom.
The worse it is, the better it gets, I say!
Alas, now that we’re speculating, Van Jones is a perfect fit for UN Ambassador.
It would have been Susan Rice, had her triumphant post-Benghazi TV victory tour held up to non-scrutiny longer.
This lazy sob couldn’t manage to make the committee briefings as Senator. I am sure he will fit in perfectly in an Obama administration, just like Eric Holder. He probably doesn’t read, either.
Why not make the country look weaker? We wouldn’t want Obamas friends in the Muslim Brotherhood to actually believe the U.S. has a spine. Perfect Obama Pick. Hope my state is The Republic of Texas soon!
John Heinze-Kerry to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton? ??? Why, yes, that would be perfect! Brilliant! Attaboy, Barry, do keep surprising us with asinine appointments to your America-punishing second term. And for ambassador to the United Nations — following that poor cow you led to sacrifice a couple weeks ago — pardon me, but her name escapes me — was it Somebody Rice? Yeah. Please do appoint he to something important. How about Secretary to the Under-Secretary of Bull-Sht Affairs?
What a bitter old shrew you’ve become in your humiliating defeat. I’m embarrassed for you.
What a tediously predictable il-liberal comment: personal insults without the slightest attempt at an intelligent comment on the “topic”. I’m embarassed for you.
Now, Bob, you aren’t talking about the Queen again are you, on the Fourth of July [hat tip The film "The Unforegiven"]? If you call a man a shrew, people will get the idea you don’t know what you are talking about.
Incidentally, you didn’t suggest to ‘Benghazi’ Obama that he should put John ‘Frenchie’ Kerry in the Sec of Def office did you?
What a wonderful insight and what wonderful choices you have made!
I applaud your wisdom and foresight!
And I just threw up.
Did anyone see this?:
http://www.infowars.com/fraud-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts-2/
It’s breathtaking…
Looks like the ‘Chicago way’ has made its way to Ohio. I’m not surprised.
Will Secretary Kerry demand a Purple Heart for getting a paper cut?
Ol Rice Butt Kerry will be the laughing stock of the command. There’s not a single soldier who has the slightest amount of respect for this fraud. He’s as authentic of a soldier as Elizabeth Warren in war paint and a native American headdress.
If Obama wants to ensure there’s nothing left of the United States by the end of his term, Kerry’s the right choice for the job.
What do you mean ”if”? The guy is as good as out in the open as a red –take a close look at Nicaragua –central America in general –how the Kerry gang maneuvered the Iran/Contra collapse of the Reagan II legislative agenda.
His job at state would probably have very specific American defeats planned. Oh hell, screw ”probably” –it’s a cinch.
“The president issued the appropriate orders, issued the appropriate instructions. The president has followed this as closely as he does on a daily briefing,”
You mean, like less than 50% of the time, right? Cuz, that’s the way he attends security briefings, that is, if it’s cloudy out and he can’t get on the links.
If Kerry’s lips are moving, you know he is not telling the truth. He is a sell out to the UN/NATO CFR New Age agenda. Just like Billery, or the rest of DaOne and company.
I always wanted to have Secretary of State who once did propaganda work on behalf of the Vietnamese communists.
Give to the silly git just to prize him off that Senate seat he expected to die in, if he hasn’t already.
Well, don’t forget that he participated in talks with the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris back in the mid 1970′s. He has “experience”, you know.
I knew several like him back then, useless, incompetent, and totally wired into the ‘system’. Kinda like LBJ and his ‘medal’ for being a passenger…
Asinine is the word that comes to mind. But that would be an advantage in this administration. Wonder if HRC would be offended to be replaced by an obvious EEO or AA candidate. Would that make HER look bad?
tom
Maybe Scott Brown can run for governor of Massachusetts.
When Elizabeth Warren runs for president in 2016, she will suddenly return to her Oklahoma roots
Kerry as SecState can bore anyone into submission. Just read the sentence quote in this blogpost.
Kerry as SecDef? well, he might actually pay attention to the USNavy. That idea is a sign Obama knows confirmations are going to be a nightmare.
i’m sorry to say, i have little doubt that he has something in mind for the USNavy.
I read late today that They don’t want to open the possibility that Scott Brown could run for Kerry’s seat. John Huntsman was possibly in line for State, and even worse, Kerry was suggested for Sec. of Defense as Panetta wants to leave too. All rumor, of course. The positive side of all this is — the Democrats really don’t have much of a bench. Washington State’s own Sen. Patty Murray will apparently be Chrm. of the Budget Committee. I was surprised, I didn’t know that she could add and subtract.
FoxBiz just confirmed your info on SecDef Kerry ”being considered”. No word on Patty Murray –other than a film clip yesterday showed her discussing the
‘fiscal cliff’ –so you probably have something there, too.
What was she saying about the fiscal cliff? This with a triumphant smile: ‘let’s just go over it, and start back fresh’ is me best paraphrase. I think Debbie Wasserman-Schultz must be behind her –only Patty Murray stands between DWS and the world champeenship.
John (I keep my yacht in tax havens as paying taxes is for the small people who didn’t marry a billionaire for her money) Kerry would be PERFECT for the job and an ideal representation of what Obama’s second term is all about.
I hear John Corzine is available for treasury if a position is open…
The loser-in-chief, watching his loser Secretary of State leave, panics! Where’s John? Where’s John?
“The white, wealthy, loser pimp reporting for duty (salutes). What position do you wish for me to
take?”
“Johnny, I want you to sit in my lap. This way I can whisper in your ear what I want you to say and I
can also satisfy my carnal desires (ala Man Country in Chicago) with an older white male. And, and
on occasion, I want to ride you dirty.”
“Yes Sir!”
Good God, no. Every national leader he’d meet would be bored to death in short order. That man has the personality of a cigar-store Indian and all of the charisma of a soap-dish.
Somebody with his secretarial skills shouldn’t be wasted.
There was speculation yesterday on Drudge that he was being considered for…wait for it…put down your coffee cup….swallow your coffee…ready?….
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.
Lord hep me, I’m not kidding. Secretary of Defense. Kerry, a famous warfighter from the Vietnam Era and heavily decorated Summer Soldier, once defended our country as a one man army. He is feared by every terrorist nation in the world, not to mention our own troops.
Sec. Def.???
Bwahahahahahahahahah.
Oh, crap, they’re serious.
I used to work with homeless Veterans here in Massachusetts, and when a Vet required the services of an elected official, I never sent them to Kerry’s office. His staff made them feel as if they were some lower-order lifeform for which they were doing a vast favor.
(I would send them to Kennedy – whatever else you may say about the guy – justifiably – his staff did an excellent job for Veterans in need)
And a great Kerry incident. I bet this still rankles with him.
He was attending some dog-and-pony event here a number of years ago, and an acquaintance of mine also was attending. Well, he ends up in the elevator with Kerry and his assistant. Kerry chats him up and then asks him, “what do you do for a living?”
My friend answers he’s a local Lawyer. And then asks Kerry, “and what do YOU do for a living?”
Kerry had an attitude problem for the rest of the evening.
Why is Gigolo John being considered for any cabinet post? I mean, who the hell is John Kerry??! One marvels that so empty a suit can be so regarded in high places and so unrelentingly pompous. It appears his wife’s dead husband’s money has given him airs.
John Kerry would be an ideal replacement for the sugar packets one puts under the short leg of a table to stop it from wobbling.
Oh, goody, John Kerry for Secretary of Defense. Why not Jane Fonda while they’re about it?
In addition to Kerry’s sterling service at trashing our troops in Vietnam, does anyone remember how he also accused our troops in Iraq of entering civilian homes in the middle of the night and killing women and children?
Every time you think this administration can’t sink lower, it does.
A Secretary of State who was rejected by his fellow Swiftboat naval officers in Vietnam. Who wore medals he did not earn. Who was a trailtor to his shipmates, and country, when he returned — early — to the States. Nice.
Whatever Putin wants. Now that Obama has more flexibility to deal with him, Kerry would be the perfect stooge.
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I am waiting on King Obama to appoint Bill Ayers as head of the CIA………..and Bernadine Dohrn to lead Homeland Security’s Explosive Ordnance Division…………
Bill Ayers to head the Dept. of Education. Here’s part of a speech he gave in Venezuela in 2008:
“This is my fourth visit to Venezuela, each time at the invitation of my comrade and friend Luis Bonilla, a brilliant educator and inspiring fighter for justice. Luis has taught me a great deal about the Bolivarian Revolution and about the profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution, and I’ve come to appreciate Luis as a major asset in both the Venezuelan and the international struggle—I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.
… Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions small and large. La educacion es revolucion!
I taught at first in something like a Simoncito—called Head Start—and eventually taught at every level in barrios and prisons and insurgent projects across the United States. I learned then that education is never neutral. It always has a value, a position, a politics. Education either reinforces or challenges the existing social order, and school is always a contested space – what should be taught? In what way? Toward what end? By and for whom? At bottom, it involves a struggle over the essential questions: what does it mean to be a human being living in a human society?
Totalitarianism demands obedience and conformity, hierarchy, command and control. Royalty requires allegiance. Capitalism promotes racism and militarism – turning people into consumers, not citizens.”
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2008/10/bill-ayers-speech-at-world-education.html
As a Vietnam Vet there is no question John Kerry wrote his chicken **** ass ticket out of ‘Nam. He injured himself and than wrote his own awards and citations. This was the case of many Woosie ass officers who were allowed to award themselves bronze stars in Vietnam. We have a true American traitor who now is being considered for high office, Sec of State or even Sec of Def.Seriously what the hell is going on here?
If that ain’t the question of the decade, i don’t know what is.
Re kerry, the Mrs was a sweet young thang from South America, posted to the UN as an interpreter, when she and wealthy batchelor Senator Heinz met and married. Soon enough he was killed in one of those private plane crashes, and she, lo and behold, somehow inherited the family biz instead of the usual generous stipend from the founding family itself. Soon enough, the widow and Kerry (newly divorced) married up and now he’s the ‘richest senator’ –who from the day he was elected and flew off the Managua to let himself be duped by Daniel Ortega (“I’m mad as hell!” he said later, after the contras had been defunded and Ortega had flown off to Moscow anyway, to take the big military loan from Brehznev that he supposedly promised Kerry he wouldn’t take), has been executing KGB foreign policy. Lucky for those guys, unlucky for Senator Heinz, that plane crash!
correction, the nation of South Africa –not South America. gotta proofread these things!
Smart heads in the military the world over are looking at this possibility and thinking to themselves, “Oh $hit.”
I’m really confused. Why are people like Biden and Kerry considered okay (old, wealthy white dude) but the same demographic as a Republican is considered to be out of touch with voting demographic??? I see no improvement or difference in the folks labelled Democratic?? If Biden and Kerry were Republican, they would be no different in background/experience, but half the electorate would consider them the enemy?? Do people not understand that neither of these folks represents the struggling electorate nor do they have anything in common with them?? This also includes the Obama’s.
Report: Obama Considering John Kerry For Secretary Of Defense…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/12/report-obama-considering-john-kerry-for-secretary-of-defense/
Same Lurch who smeared Vietnam veterans while testifying in front of Congress in 1971.
Secretary of State is the most useless position in the presidential Cabinet, besides Surgeon General. Good choice.
NOTE: This is sarcasm.
Kerry is a traitorous scumbag and a fool, the perfect candidate for an Obama cabinet appointment!
I thought he was up for Sec’y of Defense.
How perfect is that–the self-confessed war criminal, Secretary of Defense?
My God, what a joke our country has become.
Great choice. Kerry already has experience negotiating with the North Vietnamese commies. /sarc
John Kerry will be the perfect Secretary of State who will stop the Islamists once and for all by boring them to death in his negotiation attempts.
What next, Joe Biden for Secretary of Etiquette?
That scraping sound you hear is the bottom of the barrel.
Kerry for SoS- another way for Barry to declare “I won” and show his lack of respect for the nation and it’s people.
So in Barry’s World ‘Johnny WoodenBody’ is The Best and The Brightest to lead our Military ? I feel an involuntary shudder, coming on strong.
Fliers have a mild term for someone who seems to not have “gotten it”. When the poor unfortunate digs a ‘smoking hole’, he is said to have had Target Fixation, and it ‘…happens, sometimes’.
Well, Barry has a Permanent Fixation for Those such as Himself and we are going to be resultant Smoking Hole of his[supposed] Abilities.
Do I hear a whining noise, getting louder…?
It would be in keeping to have our America hating president, dingleBarry, appoint an America hating traitor. I guess he couldn’t find a black traitor.
Kerry has been deeply involved with the political loss of the two wars his country has fought in his adult lifetime –first Vietnam, where he was instrumental in maintaining the enemy’s hopes of victory until those hopes came true, and again when his presidential campaign needed something to sully George Bush with, and lit out against a mid east effort that up to then had all the signs of having achieved just what Kerry helped prevent in Vietnam –the enemy’s acceptance of defeat.
He may look, walk, talk, act like a joke, but he’s no damn joke. No one who has deliberately caused as much misery to his own nation as he has caused, could be a joke.
http://archive.boulderweekly.com/080907/thedanishplan.html
Don’t read it if you have strong feelings about what happened in SE Asia after we left, or if you have strong feelings about a person who whimsically consigned thousands to a watery grave, then proved he knows what he did by absolutely cold-bloodedly lying about it.
Kerry manages to find a way to go one better than pissing on graves, he won’t even go out of his way to do it –he’ll just do it as a matter of momentary convenience.
The thought of at the very least granting these people their place in history, small tho it may be, because it’s all they have left in the world –well, it doesn’t even enter into his botox-pumped lacquered-hair head.
This is a false flag op. Put Kerry’s name out there so Susan Rice looks so much more paletable to the public.
As a Vietnam vet, I can tell you how infuriating appointing Kerry to any post in the cabinet would be.
I hope you’re right, Michael. But do read this:
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/06/08/what-on-earth-was-leon-panetta
…and BTW –thank you for your service!