Now I'm barely able to contain my rage!
The thumbs up was a sign to his radical supporters that "yeah, I confirmed it, he's really dead".
Kerry wrote Reagan a nasty letter in 1987 after Reagan ordered bombing of Gadhafi's headquarters in retaliations for Gadhafi's killing of innocent Americans.
He opposed everything Reagan stood for. There aren't many leftists in office who could possibly think that hitting back at Gadhafi was a bad thing. Except Kerry. Amazing.