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The next US Secretary of State?
Israel Matzav ^ | 3/31/16 | Carl in Jerusalem

Posted on 03/31/2016 7:50:34 AM PDT by Nachum

Say it isn't so. Could this actually be the next US Secretary of State (Hat Tip: Barak Ravid)?
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met during his visit to Washington Wendy Sherman, an adviser to the US Democratic Party's presidential primary candidate Hillary Clinton, the foreign affairs ministry announced on Thursday.

The Egyptian foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid stated that during the meeting Sherman listened to Shoukry's evaluations of political and economic developments taking place in Egypt, the country's regional and international relations, as well as the country's efforts to fight terrorism.

"The meeting reflected the mutual wish to enforce Egyptian-American relations if Hillary Clinton wins the US presidential elections," the foreign ministry statement read.

Sherman noted that she was ready to transfer any message from the Egyptian side that would enforce the US's relationship with Egypt to Hilary Clinton, Abu Zeid said in the statement. 

The name Wendy Sherman should ring a bell to all of you. A nuclear bell. In 1994, the Clinton administration signed a deal that it claimed would

stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. The deal was negotiated by Wendy Sherman, the same Democratic party hack who was the chief concessionaire to Iran. North Korea abrogated the agreement when it felt able to do so, and has gone on to test nuclear weapons. Iran has participated in North Korea's nuclear tests.

Sherman is a total incompetent who was in way over her head. Even the Obama administration has no confidence in Sherman, who is nothing but a hack. (Look how many times they sent John Kerry to Vienna during the Iran negotiations). Here's Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal nearly three years ago.

In 1988, the former social worker ran the Washington office of the

Dukakis

campaign and worked at the Democratic National Committee. That was the year the Massachusetts governor carried 111 electoral votes to

George H.W. Bush's

426. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Sherman was briefly the CEO of something called the Fannie Mae Foundation, supposedly a charity that was shut down a decade later for what the

Washington Post

called "using tax-exempt contributions to advance corporate interests."

From there it was on to the State Department, where she served as a point person in nuclear negotiations with North Korea and met with

Kim Jong Il

himself. The late dictator, she testified, was "witty and humorous," "a conceptual thinker," "a quick problem-solver," "smart, engaged, knowledgeable, self-confident." Also a movie buff who loved

Michael Jordan

highlight videos. A regular guy!

Later Ms. Sherman was to be found working for her former boss as the No. 2 at the Albright-Stonebridge Group before taking the No. 3 spot at the State Department. Ethics scolds might describe the arc of her career as a revolving door between misspending taxpayer dollars in government and mooching off them in the private sector. But it's mainly an example of failing up—the Washingtonian phenomenon of promotion to ever-higher positions of authority and prestige irrespective of past performance.

This administration in particular is stuffed with fail-uppers—the president, the vice president, the secretary of state and the national security adviser, to name a few—and every now and then it shows. Like, for instance, when people for whom the test of real-world results has never meant very much meet people for whom that test means everything.

Two years ago, Sherman accused Israel of making the Iran talks 'harder.'
In what appeared to be a warning to Israel, she said the United States hopes no one will interfere with the talks.

"We don't enter these talks with rose-colored glasses and we don't know yet if we can resolve this diplomatically," Sherman said, according to Haaretz.

"It will be critical that our negotiators and partners have the space to get this done diplomatically. The talks with Iran will be very hard and we can't afford to make it even harder."

Haaretz also quoted her as having stressed that Iran’s nuclear program would have to be "limited, discreet, constrained, monitored and verified." [All the things that it clearly isn't in 2016. CiJ]

If the Iranian nuclear enrichment program does not meet these conditions there will be no agreement, Sherman added.

She noted that the United States "would like there to be zero enrichment" but that is an "unlikely" expectation.

From social worker to Secretary of State? What could go wrong?


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 1994; 1995; albright; albrightstonebridge; brucestokes; hillary; hillary2016; irandeal; nk; nkorea; northkorea; nucleardeal; pewresearchcenter; secretaryofstate; sherman; wendy; wendysherman
What could go wrong?
1 posted on 03/31/2016 7:50:34 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

An all-woman administration would be yet another worst-case scenario for America and for the entire world.


2 posted on 03/31/2016 7:53:51 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: equaviator

An all woman (feminazi actually)administration? You can bank on it.

Hell bent on erasing anything and everything the wretched white European men have built and sacrificed and stood for - that glorious nation called the United States of America.


3 posted on 03/31/2016 7:58:52 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: equaviator

John Bolton as SecState.
Allen West as SecDef
Ted Cruz as AG
Sarah Palin as SecInt or EPA

Start with that.


4 posted on 03/31/2016 8:01:12 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (GOPe - Enriching the consultant class while selling out their constituents.)
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To: equaviator

If we think things are bad now, just wait until the GOPe get Hilly in the WH!


5 posted on 03/31/2016 8:03:29 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Abolish the EPA. Then we can talk.


6 posted on 03/31/2016 8:05:20 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And those could only happen if we hold the Senate and gain the Presidency. I weep for all the vitriol spewed, from both sides here on FR, AT EACH OTHER. To save this once great country, we must stand TOGETHER and convince the majority of the voting public to stand with us, too. Prayers that we can achieve this in November.


7 posted on 03/31/2016 8:08:54 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Nachum

she was the lead negotiator for the United States in the Iran nuclear “deal”.....


8 posted on 03/31/2016 8:11:09 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: EQAndyBuzz

100% agree


9 posted on 03/31/2016 8:15:27 AM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: stylin19a

WE ARE HANDING OVER OUR COUNTRY TO THE ENEMY


10 posted on 03/31/2016 9:16:00 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: equaviator

Hellary would strive to make it an all lesbian administration be they in or out of the closet. The more incompetent, the better to destroy the US.


11 posted on 03/31/2016 9:18:33 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Sherman#Personal_life

“She is married to Bruce Stokes, a former journalist and Director, Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center. They first met each other in 1978 after they had gotten together to talk about how upset they were about low-income people who had to live in substandard housing.”

That’s her entire “personal life” at wiki. No mention of kids or extended family.

Ooooh, how outrageously shocking low-income people don’t live in their own Mar-a-Lago mansions!!! Eight years of the Clintons didn’t improve their lot. Eight years of obama didn’t improve their lot. But somehow giving Hellary 12 years should do the trick.


12 posted on 03/31/2016 9:27:09 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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“how outrageously shocking low-income people don’t live in their own Mar-a-Lago mansions!...”

And if some of those same people moved in right next door to her, then what?


13 posted on 03/31/2016 9:42:06 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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