Posted on 12/21/2012 5:18:09 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Senator John Kerry's impeccable credentials as a "climate hawk," membership in Yale's secret society Skull and Bones, and a voting record that almost completely ignores the Constitution, qualify him to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
There's a lot at stake here and I’ll do my best to leave no question unanswered including every possible economic and environmental consideration before a final decision is made.
I'm not sure Kerry could become Secretary of State fast enough to influence the Keystone XL pipeline decision, but it is hard to believe he would not have raised this issue with the President, since a go-ahead decision would immediately undercut the Administration's credibility on the climate issue both at home and abroad.
I have been often to, I guess, the mother ship in New York City, but it's good to have an outpost of the Council right here down the street from the State Department. We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won't have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.
Youtube: Hillary Clinton admits that the CFR runs the Government; Council on Foreign Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9gFX3Kr7nU
We have the chance, and a profound responsibility, to exercise American leadership to solve problems in concert with others. That is the heart of America's mission in the world today.
The question is not whether our nation can or should lead, but how it will lead in the 21st century. [Emphasis added.]
We want to reverse the spread of nuclear weapons, prevent their use, and build a world free of their threat. We want to isolate and defeat terrorists and counter violent extremists while reaching out to Muslims around the world.
We want to encourage and facilitate the efforts of all parties to pursue and achieve a comprehensive peace in the Middle East....
We want to combat climate change, increase energy security, and lay the foundation for a prosperous clean-energy future.
We will also put special emphasis on encouraging major and emerging global powers — China, India, Russia and Brazil, as well as Turkey, Indonesia, and South Africa -- to be full partners in tackling the global agenda. [Emphasis added.]
I want to underscore the importance of this task, and my personal commitment to it. These states are vital to achieving solutions to the shared problems and advancing our priorities -- nonproliferation, counterterrorism, economic growth, climate change, among others.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan, our goal is to disrupt, dismantle, and ultimately defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies, and to prevent their return to either country.
President Obama is committed to the vision of a world without nuclear weapons and a series of concrete steps to reduce the threat and spread of these weapons.
Our Administration is also committed to deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, with a plan that will dramatically change the way we produce, consume and conserve energy.
Now we must urge every other nation to meet its obligations and seize the opportunities of a clean energy future.
We are both witness to and makers of significant change. We cannot and should not be passive observers. We are determined to channel the currents of change toward a world free of violent extremism, nuclear weapons, global warming, poverty, and abuses of human rights.
Kerry did two tours in Nam. First tour in the blue water navy. Second tour he got a surprise assignment to the Mekong delta brown water fleet . Fact is that he cut his tour short by getting 3 purple hearts and sent home. Not even one stitch from his wounds. My belief is he couldn’t hack getting shot at.
Although made for when it was thought he would be nominated for Secretary of Defense, the video also applies to any nomination to Secretary of State
Ty for citing his out and out despicable treason.
Let’s not forget how, when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee for POW/MIA Affairs, Kerry concealed and shredded documents related to live sightings of POW/MIAs in Viet Nam and Cambodia. All the while, he was pushing for normalization of relations and trade with Viet Nam.
I see two people giving the communista clenched fist salute.
John Fn Kerry with the 3 purple owies. Fragged himself and got early out from Vietnam. They lied before Congress about soldiers.
TRAITOR just like Hanoi Jane.
Disagree. He went there for future political gain. Never forget, he thinks of himself first. He sold out his fellow servicemen, and for that he can never be called a man. He was a coward, a traitor, and a fake. Still is.
Everyone should. AFAIK there is no statute of limitations on treason. The nation that doesn’t execute its traitors ends up electing them.
Thank you for posting. Yes, he is red as hell right there with Daniel Ortega (w/Humbarto Ortega and Artero Ruiz) Sandanista Commie B__tards.
Kerry is traitor trash.
“. . . while the pubbies question Hill on Benghazi . . ....?”
She cannot be subjected to such stress. She’s ill.
Haven’t you been paying attention? The script calls for Hillary to held blameless.
I think he “served” with the Navy in VietNam??? Received 3 purple hearts for breaking his fingernails??? Threw away he service medals for serving in VN, while demonstrating against the war in VietNam, yet has them proudly hung on his senate wall??? Good choice for Sec of State for the communist leader of this country. (sarc) BLECH!
He did nit have to go. He went. W’s family helped W not go. Politics aside, one of the two men went to serve his country. W’s father had no trouble finding his way into the military.
Denigrating people who serve their country because you don’like their politics is absurd and shows blind loyalty to politics. Blind loyalty makes one blind.
The fact that GWB did not go has already been beaten into the ground. Dan Rather lost his job over that. Secondly, Swift Boat. Need I say more. The man is a coward and a traitor when he came back and lied when he testified to Congress. Twice!!
A man who enlists is never a coward. He may be a dirtbag, but never a coward. A man who evades service who calls an enlisted man a coward is as low as they come.
A man who enlists is never a coward. He may be a dirtbag, but never a coward. A man who evades service who calls an enlisted man a coward is as low as they come.
Kerry applied for a deferment in 1966 so he could study in France for a year. Only when he was denied this deferment did he opt to volunteer for the Navy signing an Officer Candidate contract to join the Naval Reserves. It was popular among young men of that day to volunteer in an effort to avoid being drafted into the Army.
Kerry’s contract was for six years of active and reserve duty, and one year of inactive standby reserves. The “three Purple Hearts and out” clause simply made it possible for Kerry to transfer out of harms way. It didn’t void the contract he signed with the Navy. He was still obligated to serve out his contract, a contract that would have seen his active duty ending in 1972 and reserve duty ending in 1978.
In Kerry’s letter asking for early release from active duty he falsely stated that his “regular period of obligated service would be completed in December of this year." On January 3, 1970 Lt. Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve Manpower Center in Bainridge, Maryland. On July 1, 1972 Lt. Kerry was transferred to Standby Reserve Inactive. On February 16, 1978 Lt. Kerry was discharged from Naval Reserve.
John Kerry was discharged from active duty, not the military, on January 3, 1970 after serving only three years and eighteen days of his contract with the Navy. At this time he was obligated to attend 48 Naval Reserve drills per year and complete 17 days of active training during each of the years required. But because Kerry hasn’t been forthright with the American people, because he hasn’t been transparent to the point of signing a Form 180 to release the total of his military records – not the incomplete and embellished offerings posted on his campaign website – we’ll never know if he satisfied these requirements or not. Of course, the mainstream media could force him to open his files as they have forced President Bush to do but that would require the media to be non-partisan, something they have consistently proven they’re not.
Even though Kerry’s contract with the Navy mandated that his service would have been completed in total in 1978 it is troubling to note that he didn’t receive an Honorable Discharge until March 12, 2001. This raises questions as to the category of his discharge at the time he left military service. It also raises questions as to how he came to acquire an Honorable Discharge almost 30 years after the fact. But that isn’t the most troubling aspect of the time directly after his service in Vietnam.
It’s interesting to note that no official military records have been released regarding the whereabouts, actions or daily status of John Kerry from January 3, 1970 to July 1, 1972. We know he was active with Vietnam Veterans Against the War during this time and that he even appeared before the Senate, testifying – or perjuring himself – to the atrocities American soldiers were committing, “on a daily basis and with the full knowledge of their superiors,” both actions in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. But where the military is concerned, nothing.
As the liberally biased media start to rehash President Bush’s National Guard record, let’s demand some straight answers from Senator Kerry about his military record beyond the “honors” he insists he acquired. Let’s find out if he satisfied his military obligation and if his actions and testimony after he left the service constitutes activities illegal. Let’s get Senator Kerry to release all of his records so we can truly see who and what he is. It’s the least he can do when asking for the trust of the American people.
Senator Kerry is unfit to serve in any part of the US government.
If Kerry was indeed unfit to serve in govt because of his lack of service, what would make W worthy of service?
I agree that policy wise Bush crushes Kerry but under what logic is Kerry’s service below Bush not participating?
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