Posted on 10/08/2012 3:39:31 PM PDT by drewh
Just as the stars looked like they might be aligning for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and his quest to become the next secretary of state, fate has intervened yet again.
This time, it came in the form of a dismal debate performance by President Obama in his first showdown with Republican Mitt Romney last week. Suddenly, a second Obama term — and Kerry’s chance for a starring role in it — seemed much less certain.
It didn’t help that Kerry was Obama’s chosen sparring partner as he prepared — or failed to prepare — for that all-important first debate. Michael Moore’s widely reported Twitter rant during Romney’s smack-down of the president included this tweet from the ultra-liberal filmmaker: “This is what happens when (you) pick John Kerry as your debate coach.”
The foreign policy speech Obama asked him to deliver in Charlotte was viewed as a tryout for the country’s top diplomatic post. Kerry’s remarks were smart, funny and, for him, amazingly self-deprecating. Peggy Noonan, the conservative Wall Street Journal columnist, described it as the speech of his life.
Then, fellow Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown — a Republican — told debate moderator David Gregory that Kerry is the right man for the job at State. Given his need to appeal to Bay State Democrats, they were a nice nod to Kerry’s hometown favorability.
Soon after the Benghazi attack, Susan Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations who is also considered Kerry’s chief rival for secretary of state, started taking serious political heat.
With Obama in the White House, Kerry often stretches to give the president cover on delicate issues, including the current controversy over the Sept. 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi.
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No.
This is what happens when you are unable to speak coherently without a teleprompter feeding you lines that other people have written for you.
Yah, send Asshatador Kerry to Cambodia on his own
private swiftboat.
Kerry is so hapless. If he became sec state, it would be just like him to get kidnapped by muzzies and beheaded on video. Purple heart, you know.
Kerry? Vietnam Nam? Really? First I’ve heard of this.
THAT’s the ONE!!!!! Thanks!!! What a FREAKING WUSS!!
THAT’s the ONE!!!!! Thanks!!! What a FREAKING WUSS!!
Kerry would never get senate confirmation!
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