Obama considering John Kerry for job of defense secretary (and Susan Rice for Secretary of State)

Washington Post ^ | Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller

[Innovative]

President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.

Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, senior administration officials familiar with transition planning said that nomination will almost certainly go to Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

[angelcindy]

The man who threw his dog tags over the capitol fence...the man who protested the vietnam war....the man who he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of “war crimes”.
Screw you John Kerry you’re not fit to be dog warden long enuff sec of defense....you turned ur back on this country..

[Terry Mross]

We had a president who protested the Viet Nam war in Europe. Now we’ll have a phony Purple Heart winner protester as SOD.

[boatbums]

Sure, let's give the Secretary of Defense job to a fake war hero who protested the Viet Nam war along with Hanoi Jane, sided with the Viet Cong against America, lied to Congress, made up vicious stories about other soldiers while STILL at war, threw away (for show) his own misgotten medals and Lord knows what else???!!! WORST.....CHOICE....EVER!!!

[boatbums]

Boo-Boo Kerry?

Yeah, that's him! Throws a grenade on a stack of rice and some grains flew back and gave him a boo-boo on his forearm. Got a Purple Heart for his troubles. What a douche!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Innovative.

[crosshairs]

It just keeps getting worse and worse.

[crosshairs]

And just think: He’s just getting started. Only 1,454 more days to go. Oh wait - But he wouldn’t be out of office until Jan. 21st...Just think: Only 1,524 days to go.

Except by then, he won't be leaving. Now shut up and pay your taxes.

[M Kehoe]

Will this mean that horse face will sign his SF 180 to release his service records?

I crack me up.

5.56mm

[cpa4you]

I have this plan/theory really. Let’s go Machiavellian and hasten the demise of the Republic, then like a Phoenix, we can rise, anew from the ashes!

Are you familiar with the term “malicious obedience?”

We should do everything we can to encourage Congress to appoint the absolute dumbest candidates and squander all the treasury. The sooner the better. At least then the inmates will no longer be in charge of the asylum!

[mountainlion]

Kerry seems to have been a communist sympathizer since Viet Nam. He visited Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam communists. He had some courts martial which was whitewashed by carter. What a slap in the face to put a traitor like that in high office. I am not a baby killer or war criminal nor have I acted like Genghis Kong. Kerry you are a liar, your whole life is a lie.

[VRWCmember]

Three words: Senate Confirmation Hearings

Three more words: Remember John Tower

The pubbies should mercilessly grill Jeanne Querrie over his slanderous testimony against his fellow troops about Vietnam. They should demand that he release his military records. Then they should summarily declare him unfit for duty and promise to filibuster any attempt to confirm him.

[MayflowerMadam]

The first time Rice walks into the room for her hearings before the panel, they should all stand up, point, and laugh.