Posted on 06/15/2008 7:49:15 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
NEW YORK: John Kerry, who suffered defeat at the hands of President George Bush in last US elections, now harbours aspiration to become Secretary of State if presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama wins the race to the White House in November.
Kerry, who is the third ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, is keen to be nation's top diplomat but does not eye the bigger prize of vice-presidency, Newsweek on Sunday quoted an unidentified source close to him as saying.
That could also well be the case for Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, the committee's second-ranking Democrat and for Senator Joseph Biden, the committee's chairman, who is frequently mentioned by Democratic insiders as a potential Secretary of State though both might give the V-P post their first priority, the report said.
Kerry is a decorated Vietnam War veteran, but because his Senate experience is in foreign relations rather than military affairs, he's more intrigued by the State Department than the Pentagon, Newsweek said quoting the source. He also speaks fluent French.
Dodd, meanwhile, has recently been showcasing his expertise on Latin America. At an April conference at the US Naval Academy, he laid out a blueprint for a "new relationship" between the United States and the region, the report noted.
Dodd's plan would include efforts to "dramatically improve" relations with Raul Castro's Cuba by lifting a US trade embargo and travel ban.
Too bad JF'n'K doesn't think or act like the men of that generation. What a wuss!
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A friend who been a sailor at Okinawa was hospitalized with a wounded hand; he cannot straighten out one of his fingers. Years ago (long before Kerry surfaced) he told me how embarrassed he had been to receive the PH while in the hospital surrounded by men in much worse shape.
The fact that so many of Kerry's colleagues hate him suggests that spirit didn't end with the WWII generation.
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Yes, you are right. But the fact that the men of spirit are ignored while “men” like Kerry rise to the top of the heap is cause for alarm.
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Talk about making the US a laughingstock, eh?
yeah, being able to speak French would be so handy in Anartica.
Yeah..I know the feeling..I was still in the service during the Clinton years...and my certificate of appreciation when I retired in 1999 is signed by Slick Willy which means nothing at all to me. I know of some who laminated that Clinton signed cert and put it on the floor under the pet dishes. That is how much disrespect we had for him.
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