Posted on 03/26/2015 1:16:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just recently Secretary of State John Kerry ridiculed Tom Cotton, the Freshman Republican Senator from Arkansas, regarding the letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran that Cotton championed, and which was signed by forty-five other Republican senators. Secretary Kerry expressed disdain for the fact that Senator Cotton was “someone who had spent only sixty days in the Senate”.
It seems that Kerry, who himself served in the United States Senate since 1984 until he took over from Hillary Clinton as secretary of state following Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, feels that Senator Cotton’s brief tenure in the Senate just doesn’t measure up to someone such as Kerry who spent nearly twenty years in the so-called ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’.
I would argue just the opposite, that it’s to Senator Cotton’s credit that he has not been a career politician like John Kerry. That he hasn’t been corrupted by the power of politics as John Kerry has been for many years now. And that his positions are taken as a matter of principle, not as a matter of partisan politics which John Kerry practiced so well during his political career.
John Kerry is a perfect example of what is wrong with politics in America today. A career politician who is ego-driven and so far out of touch with the reality of the real world that all he can do is see everything through the prism of potential political gain.
It’s quite natural to expect that John Kerry would place so much value on being a career politician, since the political circles he has embraced for so many years continually feed each other’s ego, while they treat we the people with complete disdain. They firmly believe that we’re just too stupid to govern ourselves, we need the elites like them to take care of us.
Kerry cut his teeth denigrating the military and his country during the Vietnam War where he compared our military to the invading Mongol hoard’s of old, much like his colleague in the Senate Dick Durbin has done more recently. It’s obvious that Kerry would value Durbin’s lengthy time in the Senate much more than Tom Cotton’s much more brief tenure.
But to me what is much more valuable is Tom Cotton’s experience on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, where he saw firsthand the duplicity of the Iranians as they killed and maimed American soldiers on a daily basis.
Senator Cotton knows the record of the Iranians and understands the reality of negotiating with a nation that has no intention of living up to any agreement that is reached. The Iranians have proven many times over the years that their word is unreliable.
It seems curious to me how someone like Kerry who spent nearly twenty years in the U.S. Senate knows so much less than Tom Cotton who has been there for only sixty days. Perhaps that’s a good indication that longevity in politics doesn’t count for nearly as much as honesty, integrity, and experience on the front lines defending America counts for. So I’ll take Tom Cotton’s sixty days over John
Tom Cotton is a patriot.
Lurch is a damn Yankee
The Difference Between Tom Cotton and John Kerry...One fought in Iraq, and one has a lucky hat.
Kerry has a history of sedition and treason. Cotton does not.
Kerry has like 70 purple hearts he sought to award himself?
Wasn’t Sec. Kerry in Vietnam?
Kerry has been committing sedition and treason longer than Sen. Cotton has been alive.
Dunno. All dolichocephalics look alike to me.
Yes, he was negotiating with the North Vietnamese.(Actually in Paris if I remember correctly.)
The difference between them is that one’s a lying turncoat and the other’s Tom Cotton.
The Difference Between Tom Cotton and John Kerry...One fought in Iraq, and one shot himself in the foot in Vietnam...
Kerry’s upset.
Cotton deserves all praise for that alone.
That too! :)
But-but-but isn’t sedition and treason just the way in which Democrats express their patriotism?
Jean-Francois Kerre`, God bless him, just marches to a different drummer.
Opportunist, prevaricator, and charlatan all in one, but in some strangely distorted way, he remains ever true to that core center.
And now he is negotiating with the Iranians. On behalf of the Iranians.
Isn’t it TRUE that a binding TREATY with the U. S. requires the CONSENT of the U. S. Senate?
Of course!
But, apparently, the Iranians didn’t KNOW that, because Kerry didn’t tell them. Tsk! Tsk!
Gee! How EMBARRASSING it must be for Kerry to be caught in another lie. Maybe that explains his hissy-fit.
So what?
Doesn’t Kerry’s snake-like tongue-in-tongue-out nervous habit pretty much PROVE that Kerry lies whenever he speaks.
Tom Cotton went to the Senate to be a Senator and do the will of those who sent him there. kerry went to the senate to be a politician and do the will of the party as well as attend the cocktail parties. POJK
You do.
American Patriots Against John KerryThe 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.
Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” of the Vietnamese (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.
According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.
By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.
The nation that doesn't hang its traitors ends up putting them in office.
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