The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman told Democrats in Charlotte that President Obama restored America on the world stage after the country’s “moral authority was in tatters” and Iran was “marching towards a nuclear weapon unchecked.”
“It took President Obama to make America lead like America again,” said Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in his DNC address. “…Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.”
Kerry slammed fellow Massachusetts politician Mitt Romney for having “all these neocon advisers who know all the wrong things about foreign policy” and called him “an extreme and expedient candidate who lacks the judgment and the vision so vital to the Oval Office, the most inexperienced foreign policy twosome to run for president and vice president in decades.”
“Our opponents like to talk about American exceptionalism, but all they do is talk,” he said. “…And despite what you heard in Tampa, an exceptional country does care about the rise of the oceans and the future of the planet. That is a responsibility from the Scriptures. And that too is a responsibility of the leader of the free world.”
“The only thing exceptional about today’s Republicans is that almost without exception, they oppose everything that has made America exceptional in the first place. An exceptional nation demands exceptional leadership.”
Kerry said the GOP “has lied about where this president stands and what this president has done” in regard to relations with Israel.
“But Prime Minister Netanyahu set the record straight. He said our two countries have exactly the same policy,” he said. “Our security cooperation is unprecedented. And when it comes to Israel, my friends, I’ll take the word of Israel’s prime minister over Mitt Romney any day.”
Claiming that Obama refuses to “accept the false choice between force without diplomacy and diplomacy without force,” the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee gave the current commander in chief credit for an Arab Spring ouster in which the NATO coalition was led largely by France and Britain.
“When a brutal dictator promised to hunt down and kill his own people like rats, President Obama enlisted our allies, built the coalition, shared the burden so that today, without a single American casualty, Muammar Gadhafi is gone and the people of Libya are free,” Kerry said.
He also mocked Romney’s summer trip to London, Israel and Poland, saying that the journey “mystified and alienated our allies.”
“For Mitt Romney an overseas trip was what you call it when you trip all over yourself overseas,” Kerry said. “It wasn’t a goodwill mission. It was a blooper reel.”
“Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching Rocky IV.”
John Kerry reporting for duty. What a pantywaist.
I don’t know where Kerry gets the idea that “climate change policy is a responsibility from the Scriptures”—it sounds much more like the arrogance which lay behind building the Tower of Babel.
Perhaps he thinks that since Obama has managed to split the country so thoroughly, he can also split the sea like Moses.
If Israel trusts a Democratic Party-run America they are fools in the long run. They’d be better off trusting a madman.
Gigolo.
That was Tina Fey who said that “I can see Russia” line on SNL. Dumbass.
No, Palin did say that you can sometimes see Russia from Alaska… which is true.
Fey adapted that to “I can see Russia from my house”, and liberals ran with it, being too stupid to differentiate between a comedy skit and reality.
– SNL starting the season earlier in order to begin it attack on Romney and GOP to help Obama, as it did before. Expect cast member Moynihan to be assigned to play Ryan because he is Irish and has black hair, never mind he’s twice Ryan’s weight.
“Climate-Change Policy ‘a Responsibility from the Scriptures’”
Sold the private plane yet, John?
Something only a guy who has never read the Scriptures would say.
A co worker told me that Sarah had said that (#5 Ernie) I tried to explain it was tina fey, and then I gave up. Schools are hot beds of left wing propaganda. It makes me sick. We have allowed the left to take over schools starting in the 1st grade, especially with (oh dear a racist) affirmative action right up to the universities where the professors have never had a job other than going to school.
Well what does that have to do with kerry (you know he served 3 months in viet nam & received 3 purple hearts, never spent a minute in a hospital)?
We have to get rid of these people. He conspired with the viet cong. He threw his medals (actually someone elses) over the white house fence.
He is much richer than Romney but Romney earned his. Gigilo kerry married his. I wonder if Heinz is spinning in his grave to think of who his wife married and entrusted all his money to.
An exceptional country that cared about the climate would be building nuclear power plants. Like France has?
It also wouldn’t be destroying hydroelectric dams to “make rivers wild again”. Like we are.
These are just a couple of the Inconvenient Truths of the environmental movement. It’s the destruction of civilization they want. Global Warming, a New Ice Age, Climate Chaos- all are just excuses. Of course, I wouldn’t expect Kerry to grasp this; it requires actual thought, which he seems incapable of.
About the best thing that can be said about Kerry’s rant is that at least it wasn’t as long as Obama’s. But only Clinton (B.J., not the Hill) can out-bloviate The Self-Exalted One.
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Lurch must be talking about Baha’i scripture
If climate change policy is dicated by the Scriptures, isn’t it a violation of the Separation of Church and State for the government to be involved?
Hi there fellow bloggers. My name is United States Senator John Forbes Kerry from the great state of Massachusetts. You can call me JFK if you want. I was born on December 11, 1943, although people tell me that I look at least 20 years younger. It’s probably my great hair and rugged good looks.
I graduated from Yale in June 1966 in the top 1% of my class. To earn extra money during the summers, I loaded trucks in a grocery warehouse and sold encyclopedias door to door. That is probably one of the reasons that I am so humble. Over my four years at Yale, I maintained a 96 grade average and received a 101 average in my senior year.
I am one of the most senior members of that grand and much loved and respected institution known as the U.S. Senate. Probably the only Senator who was even a little bit greater than me and a little more humble was my dear friend Ted Moore Kennedy. I also have a very high IQ. Very high. At least 250 on a bad day. Much higher than that creep who stole the election from me. I know that he stole it because exit polls are never ever wrong.
I am also a great war hero. I set all kinds of records for heroism when I was in Vietnam. I was grievously wounded at least three times yet continued to insist on staying in the fight when lesser men would have given up. I won the bronze star with extra V’s for extra valor and the Silver Star for defeating a whole battalion of NVA with my bare hands. Sometimes I feel like a had to carry all the water for those other ungrateful swiftboaters.
I sometimes like to chill out after a long day of serving the American people by having a double martini with my good friend Ted, although I can’t do that now as he has stopped drinking. We used to have a servant bring 21 double martinis. I got one and Ted got one for each of his fingers and each of his toes. Contrary to what some of my very few enemies say I never marry women for just their money. They must also have a pulse. BTW, did I mention that I was in Vietnam? I was also in Cambodia, so don’t forget that!
I would like to think that I am open minded, honest, polite, heroic, trustworthy and humble. And I appreciate the same qualities in others although I am realistic enough to know that no one else could come close to me.
Turn offs: other politicians who spend more on haircuts than I do. That is just not right.
Who I’d like to meet:
…other progressive bloggers. Other great war heroes who hate that damn S-T-U-P-I-D Texan who stole the election from me by using Karl Rove’s mind control machine and those lying sons of ###### swiftboat ######## whose pants are on fire! Cool people who live close to Washington D.C. so that we can get together, talk about you for about 30 seconds and then spend about 9 hours talking about me. BTW, did I mention that I was in Vietnam and Cambodia? Just one more BTW, if anyone has found my magic hat please return to me.
Don’t you just love it when politicians who don’t believe in any higher power than themselves quote “scripture” to make a point with people of faith? But, then, does anyone really give a damn what John Kerry has to say. . . about anything?
What bugs me most about this is the outlandish inconsistency and how few people call them on it. If you say abortion should be illegal because it runs contrary to God’s law they scream that you’re a religious nut trying to tear down the wall between church and state. But if they want to raise taxes or flush money down the toilet all of a sudden it’s justified by the Bible.
They really need to make up their minds about the Bible. Is it superstitious nonsense or a guide from God on how to legislate?
All one can saw about John Kerry is eww……
Kerry is a dolt that needs to be taken out of office and retired to dust bin.
Personally I’m agnostic, fine if others believe in religion but I don’t base my decisions on religion.
But it’s funny how liberals are hypocrits when it comes to religion, they mock the right for being (mostly) christian, even obama (supposedly a religious man) mocked Americans for clinging to their guns and bibles. Yet, in a pinch, they were willing to us the bible to try and manipulate people. Are any liberals going to mock Kerry for using the bible to promote the idea of green energy? Of course not, they like to believe they are in on the joke.
Taking jabs at John Kerry’s bottomless hypocricies is like shooting fish in a barrel – It’s just too damn easy. The only thing keeping Iran’s nuclear program in check is the possibility that the Israelis might go in and wipe it out.
I’m not a big John McCain fan but it has always infuriated me that the Democrats and “progressives” lionized John Kerry for his “war service” in Vietnam yet sneeringly implied that there was something wrong with McCain for having a genuinely distinguished military record and also for enduring more than five years in brutal captivity. I wonder how John Kerry would have come through that?
Kerry didn’t have to worry about captivity, because the enemy didn’t want him any more that our troops did!
This just shows how out of touch Kerry and the Democrats are. Most of the public is sceptical of climate change and is it certainly not on the top of the list of most peoples concerns. The only people to whom climate change is of major concern is “new age” hippy types and college professors sucking the teat of grant money.
Could John Kerry please tell what passage in the Bible he is using to back up his claim.
Who cares what lies spew from the mouth of this scum traitor. That the DNC would allow the traitor to speak, speaks for the depths to which the DNC has sunk. There is a very special place in hell I am sure for those who quote the Bible to further the cause of their evil. Yes I was/am a Swift Boater,and a Green Beret Against Kerry, and Veteran Against Kerry. I am proud to have kept that evil SOB out of the WH. I am very saddened that America is so ignorant that they let the left use the scumbag to further their cause, but what further proof does one need that the leftist cause is an EVIL cause. A traitor to the nation uses God at a convention that sets out to deny God and anoint their own human toady god at a celebration of evil! The nevil reign of the left and of the Obamanation must be stopped, NOW.
One last word for Kerry, you are scum, you have always been scum, and you will always be scum! The only hope for you escaping being scum lies in that Bible that you blaspheme!
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this is not related to the main post, but could you kindly express your opinion in the WSJ poll re the continuation (or NOT) of the wind production tax credit? I don’t mean to predispose anyone but THEY SHOULD BE ELIMINATED!
Just imagine, this man could be the next secretary of state! The whole world will suffer if this insufferable oaf has that job. He would be even worse than Hilary Clinton.
Did Teresa give him permission to speak?
I remember “thou shalt not kill”, being from the scriptures. Why doesn’t he worry about that one when he votes for abortion?
A little off subject but during the floor vote to get GOD back into the party platform one of the delegates made a statement on TV that they took GOD out because of separation between church and State. Problem is the Democratic Party is an organization not the Government.
John Kerry should be more careful trying out ‘funny’ language when mentioning his adversaries, nay enemies.. After being swiftboated by folks who know him you’d think he had realized where his reputation had gone..In the North Vietnamese toilet!
Treason to American values, pace Eric Holder and Janet Reno, is in itself a disqualifier for high office, and that of Secretary of State is possibly the highest ranking one in any administration – even that of Obama!!
Kerry might now be targeted with name calling such as ‘Kerry Water for the Enemy’ or ‘Kerry On with Osama’s successor’.. Good thing that Jane Fo(u)nda out long ago!!
DEDICATED TO MICHAEL MANN
AND THE OTHER “CLIMATE CHANGE FREAKERS”
Hush Baby Manny, don’t you dare,
Say we another need “Climate Scare”.
‘Cause your Scare didn’t do the trick,
And we didn’t buy your hockey stick!
Since that hockey stick got broke,
All your goofy numbers went up in smoke.
Since those numbers went smokin’ away,
You don’t have a clue where they are today.
If today we know you’re a fool,
Suing Mark Steyn just isn’t cool!
And if Mark Steyn can’t speak his mind,
Then the law we know’s no longer blind.
If the law’s no longer blind,
Then another Prezzy we should find.
Once a new Prezzy we have found,
We can start to turn this country around!
And once we turn this country around,
Then no silly scientists need be found.
When the silly scientists are all gone away,
No more Climate Changers will come our way.