Posted on 03/26/2015 1:16:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just recently Secretary of State John Kerry ridiculed Tom Cotton, the Freshman Republican Senator from Arkansas, regarding the letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran that Cotton championed, and which was signed by forty-five other Republican senators. Secretary Kerry expressed disdain for the fact that Senator Cotton was “someone who had spent only sixty days in the Senate”.
It seems that Kerry, who himself served in the United States Senate since 1984 until he took over from Hillary Clinton as secretary of state following Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012, feels that Senator Cotton’s brief tenure in the Senate just doesn’t measure up to someone such as Kerry who spent nearly twenty years in the so-called ‘world’s greatest deliberative body’.
I would argue just the opposite, that it’s to Senator Cotton’s credit that he has not been a career politician like John Kerry. That he hasn’t been corrupted by the power of politics as John Kerry has been for many years now. And that his positions are taken as a matter of principle, not as a matter of partisan politics which John Kerry practiced so well during his political career.
John Kerry is a perfect example of what is wrong with politics in America today. A career politician who is ego-driven and so far out of touch with the reality of the real world that all he can do is see everything through the prism of potential political gain.
It’s quite natural to expect that John Kerry would place so much value on being a career politician, since the political circles he has embraced for so many years continually feed each other’s ego, while they treat we the people with complete disdain. They firmly believe that we’re just too stupid to govern ourselves, we need the elites like them to take care of us.
Kerry cut his teeth denigrating the military and his country during the Vietnam War where he compared our military to the invading Mongol hoard’s of old, much like his colleague in the Senate Dick Durbin has done more recently. It’s obvious that Kerry would value Durbin’s lengthy time in the Senate much more than Tom Cotton’s much more brief tenure.
But to me what is much more valuable is Tom Cotton’s experience on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, where he saw firsthand the duplicity of the Iranians as they killed and maimed American soldiers on a daily basis.
Senator Cotton knows the record of the Iranians and understands the reality of negotiating with a nation that has no intention of living up to any agreement that is reached. The Iranians have proven many times over the years that their word is unreliable.
It seems curious to me how someone like Kerry who spent nearly twenty years in the U.S. Senate knows so much less than Tom Cotton who has been there for only sixty days. Perhaps that’s a good indication that longevity in politics doesn’t count for nearly as much as honesty, integrity, and experience on the front lines defending America counts for. So I’ll take Tom Cotton’s sixty days over John
The difference is as vast as light and darkness, day and night, a mile and an inch, a muddy puddle and an ocean, in short there is no comparison.
The difference is Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia and even has a “lucky hat” as a souvenir to show for it and Cotton never even came close to having such a worthy experience.
I wonder if he told the Cambodians that he served in Vietnam.
Do you realize that when JohnwhowasinnNam Kerry spent Christmas in Cambodia wasn’t even thought of? He wasn’t born until 1977
I am trying to find an article that highlights the difference between John Kerry and cockroach scat. Anyone know where I can find that info?
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BTW ,,did anyone notice Mooch is in Cambodia on her “promote education for girls” tour?
Great idea,,worst spokesperson in the world,,but great idea.
Get this.....Cambodia is telling Mooch that the US needs to PAY for programs in Cambodia that will educate women.
I’m sure Michelle said “ok”,,but that’s not official.
sickening isn’t it?
It also shows the disdain with which Kerry (he served in Vietnam, you know) and other libs view young military veterans who get into politics. I’d take 10 Tom Cottons before I even considered a Kerry.
Colonel, USAFR
Tom Cotton never served in Cambodia. In fact he avoided the Vietnam War altogether by the expedient of not being born yet.
Kerry was in ‘Nam?
NO FRICKING WAY!
Jean Francois was there for about 15 minutes until he got a few purple hearts for heat rash and a thorn in his foot and got shipped home to betray his comrades in arms.
Feh.
I'll stack up Tom Cotton's MILITARY career against John Effin' Vietnam Kerry ...
Effin' comes off as a pusillanimous toad.
With apologies to actual toads ...
I wonder if Kerry has some sort of same-sex relationship going on with Barry Soetoro?
Not saying he does, mind ...
Just wondering.
It was the correct thing to do
Thanks for the information, and your time.
No problem at all. I’m glad to keep the truth about these people circulating.
Lurch is a damn commie.
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