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CNN Analysis: Kerry would bring experience, deep personal resources to State Dept.
Chicken Noodle News (CNN) ^ | December 16, 2012 | Elise Labott and Jill Dougherty

Posted on 12/15/2012 10:47:42 PM PST by Zakeet

Sen. John Kerry, who sources say has been tapped by President Barack Obama to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, will come to the post with a full plate of foreign policy crises, from the civil war in Syria, to the nuclear antics of North Korea, to a looming showdown with Iran over its nuclear program.

Anybody who follows Clinton would have some pretty big shoes to fill. Clinton was not just the most popular member of the president's Cabinet for the past four years, she had celebrity status and respect almost everywhere she went around the world.

But as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for almost 30 years, the past four as chairman, Kerry himself is a highly respected figure on the world stage. While Obama is not close to a lot of world leaders, Kerry has deep relationships with many heads of state that he can draw on as the nation's top diplomat. Sources close to the Massachusetts Democrat note that the increasing partisanship on Capitol Hill has disillusioned Kerry and he is ready to leave the Senate.

He is no stranger to diplomacy and has often traveled overseas on behalf of the Obama administration as a diplomatic troubleshooter and to mend frayed relationships. Kerry persuaded Afghan President Hamid Karzai to agree to an election runoff in 2009 and has traveled Pakistan after a series of incidents, including the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; democrat; democrats; foreignpolicy; hillary; hillaryclinton; jfkerry; johnkerry; kerry; losers; obama; secretaryofstate; statedepartment; stuckonstupid; unfitforcommand
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Senator Kerry has "hands on" experience and served in combat...

And that includes serving in Cambodia during Christmas, 1968, after President Nixon ordered him to go there to take part in his "secret war."

41 posted on 12/16/2012 6:25:02 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: rktman

Hillarie’s Thong! I remember when Bill Clinton when to Brazil and bought two thong bikini’s —but then—they may not have been for his wife. Think of all the good things from this appointment!
1. Kerry’s now out of the Senate! One less Dem.
2. He’s off a powerful committee.
3. He’s got loads of friends in the Communist world.
4. He will be motivated to do a good job—to look better than Hillary if nothing else.
5. He will be a refreshing change from Hil.
6. He did serve in the military once—something the President never did. He can give a proper salute.
7. He can’t screw things up worst than they are.


42 posted on 12/16/2012 6:29:13 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
7. He can’t screw things up worst than they are.

Don't be so sure.

Kerry won't have Huma telling him what to do and say. And left to his own devices -- which are admittedly meager --Kerry is quite capable of making an even bigger hash of things.

43 posted on 12/16/2012 6:43:34 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

-——7. He can’t screw things up worst than they are.-——

He is the ugly American. Never underestimate the disgust that sheer arrogance can produce


44 posted on 12/16/2012 6:43:58 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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To: Zakeet
He also served in Vietnam, or so I've been told:


45 posted on 12/16/2012 6:47:25 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Fiji Hill
RE: "And that includes serving in Cambodia during Christmas, 1968, after President Nixon ordered him to go there to take part in his "secret war."

That's right! I'd forgot. A newly elected president was so anxious to get the benefit of young Kerry's abilities that -- even before he was sworn in as president -- Nixon asked Kerry to do diplomatic/military missions!

46 posted on 12/16/2012 7:35:31 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
In a thong that cottage cheese in saran wrap looking backside of hers would be dragging at her heels.


47 posted on 12/16/2012 8:06:01 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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To: Zakeet

“Lap dog!”

That’s right. He’s a liberal, pandering, lying lap dog. He’s so much of one that he has his nose snuggled right in the crotch of Obama.


48 posted on 12/16/2012 8:55:00 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Zakeet

Requirement #1 is to know how to lie, and he meets that requirement in spades.


49 posted on 12/16/2012 8:56:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

John Kerry or Eli Manning ?

They do resemble each other


50 posted on 12/16/2012 9:01:00 AM PST by patriotspride
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To: Zakeet

It is no surprise that this administration would select a treasonous, traitorous, tax dodging, anti-American scumbag like Kerry. No surprise at all. I fully expected it.


51 posted on 12/16/2012 9:01:27 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: nathanbedford

Kind of cuts to the heart of the matter there, doesn’t it? You have a knack for that in your posts...:)


52 posted on 12/16/2012 9:02:52 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: Zakeet

Well Kerry has a lot of experience betraying the military so he and Barry should have a field day for the next 4 years. It just got a lot more dangerous being on the front lines.


53 posted on 12/16/2012 9:13:05 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Zakeet

Well he certainly has “experience” in being a traitor to America, and shooting an unarmed teenage asian boy in the back, and running away like a coward from a gunfight- dumping one of his men into the water (for ANOTHER boat to rescue while still under gunfire)

yes, he has that kind of experience


54 posted on 12/16/2012 9:41:28 AM PST by Mr. K (some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: Zakeet

Hey! Lurch is the man!
Experience? He served in Vietnam.
Deep resources? His wife has deeper pockets than anybody.


55 posted on 12/16/2012 10:07:51 AM PST by Malesherbes (- Sauve qui peut)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Well, this one ain't photo-shopped, is it?

On second thought maybe it is. No botox.

56 posted on 12/16/2012 10:14:09 AM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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To: nathanbedford
Curious that "a renaissance person with a tremendous range of skill, both political and substantive, with a deep reservoir of knowledge" would be second choice for Secretary of State to a disgraced liar.

Funny that!

57 posted on 12/16/2012 8:09:11 PM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

I had missed that legal drama with Registered; I had simply wondered what happened with him. Now I suppose I know the tale.


58 posted on 12/16/2012 8:34:52 PM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Iirc traitor Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia.

So he has multinational experience.


59 posted on 12/16/2012 9:02:28 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: SoFloFreeper

We need some perspective here. Everything we know is wrong with this guy is seen by ob as being qualified for the job


60 posted on 12/16/2012 9:09:59 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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