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Is Kerry the most useless secretary of state in living memory? (VIDEO)
Biz Pac ^ | June 23 2014 | John R. Smith

Posted on 06/23/2014 6:49:35 AM PDT by PoloSec

Incompetence hurts any organization. But it is especially disastrous when it overcomes an American president and most of his Cabinet. Yes, “incompetence” is the right way to describe President Obama’s administration. Programs and policies are not working, and damning evidence is piling up against Secretary of State John Kerry as the most ineffective of all.

There is not much that Kerry has gotten right in the year and a half he has held his Cabinet position, starting with his Senate testimony in April 2013 that elections in Iran are not “much different than elections in the U.S.”

In September, a New York Sun editorial, “Time for Kerry to Resign,” said Kerry wanted to see Syria “let off the hook for gassing its own people.” The Sun made the point that Kerry is now in a job where “there isn’t any room for blundering.” His bungling also forfeited whatever diplomatic leverage Obama had in trying to prohibit Iran’s uranium enrichment. Kerry’s negotiations failed to stop Iran, and the Syria talks went nowhere.

Earlier this year, Kerry slammed skeptics of man-made climate change, calling them “flat-Earthers.” The real truth is that warming is being caused by factors that scientists don’t understand, and there is no “consensus science.” The science is not settled, and the Kerry/Obama man-made-warming club is not being honest.

I won’t even get into Kerry’s fool’s errand to salvage the Israeli-Arab negotiations for Middle East peace, which have gone exactly nowhere — a shining example of diplomatic futility. A stunning indictment of Kerry’s judgment came with his suggestion that Israel is becoming an “apartheid state.”

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To: PoloSec
He is worse than useless.
A useless man does nothing. Kerry is actively stirring up more unrest by siding with the wrong side every time, wasting our solders lives, supporting things like homosexuality in a region of the world where you can get beheaded for it, shaming our country and our allies and being a complete knucklehead.
Before 0bama, America was hated and despised by half the world, now we lost the respect of the friends we once had.

21 posted on 06/23/2014 7:04:09 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: PoloSec

Well. He’s bad that’s for sure. I hate when in politics (and both sides do it) someone gets a key position because it’s “their turn”. The GOP supported and voted for him because, well ... he was “one of them”.

Garbage in garbage out.


22 posted on 06/23/2014 7:04:15 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: PoloSec

Just what did we expect from this traitor? He might have repaired his reputation had he decided to enjoy his wife’s inherited fortune and stuck to wind-surfing.


23 posted on 06/23/2014 7:04:44 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Adder

Not even close. John F’n Kerry can’t keep his mouth shut. Hillary usually just sat around with a smug look. At least our enemies could imagine that she had a cogent thought.


24 posted on 06/23/2014 7:04:48 AM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: PoloSec

Could be, but he’s got some tough competition for that title.


25 posted on 06/23/2014 7:06:28 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: PoloSec
heck out Edward Everett the original John Kerry. From Massachusetts and Harvard Everett was know for his speechifying and not much else, but then he worked for Millard Fillmore.
Fron Wikipedis: Everett was one of the great American orators of the antebellum and Civil War era. He is often remembered today as the featured orator at the dedication ceremony of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863, where he spoke for over two hours—immediately before President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous, two-minute Gettysburg Address.
26 posted on 06/23/2014 7:08:13 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: PoloSec

Man, that is a crowded field....................


27 posted on 06/23/2014 7:12:34 AM PDT by Red Badger (I've posted a total of 2,735 threads and 84,728 replies, as of 06-20-2014)
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To: PoloSec
Luclily for and , the answer is yes. lol

28 posted on 06/23/2014 7:15:39 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: BitWielder1

HERE HERE!! You got it oh so RIGHT!!!!!


29 posted on 06/23/2014 7:17:13 AM PDT by cousair
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To: PoloSec
Useless swift boat skipper, useless protester, useless lawyer, useless house representative candidate, useless Senator, useless Presidential candidate, useless SoS.

At least he's consistent.

30 posted on 06/23/2014 7:18:12 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: PoloSec
“Secretary of State John Kerry as the most ineffective of all.”

Kerry is merely following Obama Administration policy. It is the policy that is disastrous and incompetent. Not to say Kerry is not those things himself.

In 2008 the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were won. the Soviet Union was an ally. Egypt and Libya were also allies and the world was relatively stable.

The Obama Administration made the situation much worse with Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and then Kerry continued the decline.

But if you kept the policies the same and replaced Kerry with another liberal Democrat does anyone thing the situation would get any better?

31 posted on 06/23/2014 7:20:47 AM PDT by detective
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To: Graewoulf

“Nothing bad happened in Viet Nam after we left.”

Then-Senator John Kerry.


32 posted on 06/23/2014 7:31:58 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Adder

Sort of like debating whether BO or our first gay president James Buchanan was the worst ever . . .


33 posted on 06/23/2014 7:41:30 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: PoloSec

I’d say he’s running neck and neck with Hillary for the worst ever.


34 posted on 06/23/2014 7:45:41 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Maine Mariner
Absolutely not!! Just a few months ago Vice President Biden called Kerry the greatest Secretary of State in the history of the United States of America

Yes, right up there with Thomas Jefferson*.

*:Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

35 posted on 06/23/2014 8:07:29 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: PoloSec

36 posted on 06/23/2014 8:08:51 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: PoloSec

The three stooges would be proud to know Kerry Biden and Obama.


37 posted on 06/23/2014 8:13:03 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Rummyfan

No you don’t! Neither do I!


38 posted on 06/23/2014 8:26:44 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Graewoulf
Mrs. Bill Clinton of Benghazi Murder fame, or “Toss Vietnam Medals Away” Kerry.

Kerry was in Viet Nam?

Who knew?

39 posted on 06/23/2014 8:31:22 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
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To: Graybeard58

Well, he does have replacement War Medals on his Office Wall in the District of Corruption - - - .


40 posted on 06/23/2014 8:34:11 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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