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Obama Should Fire John Kerry
White House Dossier ^ | Sep 11, 2013 | Keith Koffler

Posted on 09/11/2013 10:25:04 AM PDT by Hoodat

Once, when I was a White House reporter for a mainstream news organization, my editor ran a story on the front page. Mind you, we only put two stories on the front page, so it was a big deal.

As I remember, it was a first-rate piece that presented some really important information. It deserved to be on the front page. It so deserved to be on the front page that, in fact, it had been there a couple of weeks before.

That’s right, the editor ran the same story twice, in the same place. He deserved to be fired. It was only because the chief editor of the publication was a magnanimous guy that he wasn’t.

My point is, there there are some mistakes, in the jobs we hold, that you just can’t make. It almost doesn’t matter what else you have done. If you sailed the QE II around the world 20 times and then on the 21st you ram it into Gibraltar, you’re not going to be captaining the QE II again. You can go rent sailboats in the Bahamas.

John Kerry’s error Monday in London was of the type that I cannot remember from a U.S. Secretary of State in my lifetime. With a few careless words – and careless is exactly the antithesis of what a diplomat must be – Kerry completely screwed up the president’s policy, a policy that is a matter of war and peace. President Obama should fire him.

By suggesting off the cuff in answer to a question at a news conference . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at whitehousedossier.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: incompetent; kerry; obama; soskerry; syria
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Kerry never should have been hired to begin with. Unfortunately, this Administration has a history of filling new vacancies with individuals who are even more incompetent than those they replace. If Kerry gets canned, I suspect we would see someone like Hank Johnson or Barbara Lee take his place.
1 posted on 09/11/2013 10:25:04 AM PDT by Hoodat
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To: Hoodat

To borrow a phrase, “what difference does it make?!”


2 posted on 09/11/2013 10:26:13 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Hoodat
Fire Kerry? Why? Who else is there available who can make BO look smart by comparison?

Would Senators Patricia Bin Murray or Bob Casey, Jr. even take the job if offered?

3 posted on 09/11/2013 10:28:28 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Hoodat

“Obama Should Fire John Kerry”

Better yet, Obama should resign!


4 posted on 09/11/2013 10:28:40 AM PDT by kenmcg (scapegoat)
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To: kenmcg
“Obama Should Fire John Kerry”

You left off "Out of a Cannon".

5 posted on 09/11/2013 10:29:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hoodat

Fire the entire administration including obama and everyone hired under him or appointed by him.


6 posted on 09/11/2013 10:30:12 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Hoodat

Why not Anthony Weiner, he’s available.


7 posted on 09/11/2013 10:31:03 AM PDT by Aquamarine
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To: Hoodat
Hehehehehe, now the left wants to throw Kerry under the bus in order to save their savior Obama. The stench starts at the top.
8 posted on 09/11/2013 10:31:06 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Hoodat

Well Duuuugh... Obama has gone to a lot of trouble to put every Barney Fife mime, shemotzle, and no goodnick in power everywhere in the Executive Branch of Federal Givernment and YOU WANT him to start cleaning things UP NOW!!>???..

What are you a comedian?..


9 posted on 09/11/2013 10:32:01 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Hoodat

Hell, Kerry should quit. He followed orders and went out and made a vigorous defense of his boss’ hal-fast policies. Not his fault that said boss immediately began flip-flopping once he’d crawled out on the limb.


10 posted on 09/11/2013 10:32:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Hoodat

Replace him with Susan Rice...at least she knows how to stay “on lie.”


11 posted on 09/11/2013 10:34:07 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Don't twerk me, Bro!)
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To: Hoodat

Obama should replace Kerry with Rep. Hank Johnson.

He gots international credentials, starting wif Guam capsizing.

Perfect for the black centric Obama’s all star team.


12 posted on 09/11/2013 10:35:35 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Hoodat

Soon as I heard it, I knew it was a way for the world to step back from the brink. I wonder if Kerry did it on purpose?


13 posted on 09/11/2013 10:35:38 AM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: Hoodat

The Moron can't fire Lurch ... cause that would break up a matched set!

14 posted on 09/11/2013 10:36:42 AM PDT by Zakeet (Democrats haven't destroyed your freedoms ... you can still visit them at the Smithsonian)
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To: Hoodat

They deserve each other - two incompetent traitors.

If Kerry had any manhood at all he would have resigned August 30 when Obama pulled the rug out from him and left him dangling in the wind over the issue of attacking Syria.

After sending Kerry out to convince Americans and the world that he (Obama) had the right to take unilateral military action against Syria, Obama decided to throw the hot potato to congress, making Kerry look like even more of an ass than usual.


15 posted on 09/11/2013 10:37:06 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I understand that kerry follows orders from his master but based on what I see on daily basis this men is extremely arrogant.


16 posted on 09/11/2013 10:37:30 AM PDT by QQQQ
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To: Hoodat

I disagree. In all seriousness, this is high humor for me. This amateur administration has gone from being dangerous, to being embarassing to just plain funny.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. I’m laughing while the US burns. Sure, it’s sad and hopeless - and a lot of people are going to get hurt - bus sometimes you just gotta laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing Starting with who the Obama base actually is and then just going from there.

If it happened a thousand years ago, we’d all be laughing hysterically since it wouldn’t have the sting these events have while being endured. I try to see it from that perspective. One could call it denile. I prefer to see it as my embracing the Serenity prayer:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

If you are falling without a chute from an airplane at 10,000 feet, you might as well enjoy the view on your way down.


17 posted on 09/11/2013 10:40:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The firing is purposed for his completely idiotic and apparently off hand remark in London on Saturday. Kerry has been a poseur so long he doesn’t even realize it. He takes himself seriously. This really was a driving the Titanic into the iceberg moment. He took a bad situation worse, and just about bound the president hand and foot in the matter of Syria. Actually, Putin may be coming to Obama’s aid domestically, while he gets laughed and booed out of the Middle East.


18 posted on 09/11/2013 10:48:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Hoodat

Wasn’t he in Vietnam or something? :)


19 posted on 09/11/2013 10:50:54 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Hoodat; Jane Long; All

OH NOES!

Don’t fire Secretary of Statements John “Pinprick” Kerry!

He was just starting to “Ketchup” to the great work left undone by the previous Secretary of Statements, Mrs. Bill “Zipper-Boy” Clinton.

“May the circle be unbroken, by and by -—” [or is it bye and bye?]


20 posted on 09/11/2013 10:51:14 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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