John Kerry endorses Joe Biden for Democratic nomination

Boston Globe ^ | December 5, 2019, 11 minutes ago | Victoria McGrane Globe Staff,

[conservative98]

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[MrEdd]

Burisima Buddies!

[nevadapatriot]

Loser endorses loser

[maggief]

Good cover for payoff to their sons?

[VanDeKoik]

Rich old white guy endorses even older white guy.

[Harpotoo]

Sweet! The kiss of Death!

[TakebackGOP]

I respect that he is endorsing Biden.

[butlerweave]

Kerry wants his old job back so can help Iran

[kempster]

We saw exactly what your party considers putting things back together John. Sorry, I will pass. MAGA 2020.

[bgill]

Kerry is hoping for VP. It won’t happen.

[elpadre]

Weren’t the Kerry/Biden sons playmates in the Ukraine??

[hsmomx3]

I can just imagine Joe appointing him SOS or another high position.

[5th MEB]

WELLLL; there’s the kiss of death!

[A Navy Vet]

"I got to spend a few hours outside Walter Reed with a group of them, and I simply wanted to shake their hands and salute all of them for standing up when we needed them to."

Wow, what an honor and a great thing for you to do. When did you serve if I may ask? I was Navy '75-'86.

[rlmorel]

We were in around the same time...I went to Great Lakes in December 1975...:)

Spent my time mostly in NAS Cecil Field and USS JFK as attached airwing in the Med...I wonder if we ever crossed paths on liberty over in Naples...:) But yes...it was a real honor to meet them. I was so filled with gratitude for their outspoken opposition to the scumbag Kerry. They could have stayed home and watched it all from television, but more than a few of them spoke out and made themselves targets. I believe one of them lost his job over it.

Here are four of them, I think there were a few more there that night:

I was moved to buy this sticker from them and put it on the rear window of my car in this extreme blue state:

I drove around with this on my car for over a year, and my car never got keyed, but I did get flipped off by a little old lady with a gray bun. (I don't think she was that old, you know how Leftists all look older than they really are...)

They had a lot of contempt for him. They talked about how he showed up at one of their reunions before the 2004 campaign, and he showed up with a Swift Boat bomber jacket, and camera crews (IIRC) and thought he would be the center of attention. I believe he said most there just ignored him.

[A Navy Vet]

I did boot camp in San Diego before it shut down. I never did a Med deployment. Mine were all Pacific 7th Fleet. I was initially stationed aboard a LPD, then LPH-11 for many years with extended cruises. I re-enlisted for shore duty in Rota Spain '79-'81, and then back to 7th Fleet on FF 1088.

Last active duty was as a Naval Reserve recruiter at North Island San Diego. Living in Imperial Beach with the illegals using my side gate is how I got into that issue. I know more about that issue than many have forgotten. When your children awake crying, it never leaves your brain pan. I went out to confront a bunch with my PR-24 I was trained in Spain while Shore Patrol. They didn't expect such an encounter and left. Sorry, got off point.

[rlmorel]

Good gosh, that must have been terrible, having to confront those people. It was a problem then, one who is not living in it in the southwest can only imagine how it is today.

Heh, never went ashore at Rota, but my favorite memory was being anchored offshore not far the USS Eisenhower on her first Med Cruise awaiting OUTCHOP, and woke up to the music playing over the 1MC of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" with the line:

And when you wake up, it's a new morning
The sun is shining, it's a new morning
And you're going, you're going home

I can't listen to that song even today without feeling emotion...brings back memories!

I lived over in Yokosuka and Subic Bay for about five years as a kid...I imagine you saw some of those places!

And, thanks for serving!

[A Navy Vet]

"I lived over in Yokosuka and Subic Bay for about five years as a kid...I imagine you saw some of those places!"

Yup. Been to Yokosuka many times for shore liberty. Subic Bay was ... well, Subic...a unique liberty port. So you were a military kid and then joined? What was your rating? I was originally an ABF (fueler - grape) on the flight deck. Made E-6 when I converted to the new Navy Counselor rating while in Spain. Knew I would be heading back to the flight deck as an Airdale and didn't want those around the clock hours with baloney sandwiches during flight ops.

Planned to do my 20 or more, but NC was tightening and CPO was years away. I was offered the manager of a civilian warehouse, so got out and did well. If I had stayed one more year active, I could have changed my red crow and hash marks to Gold, but stuck at E-6 for too long. Still, the most rewarding years of my life and would do it all again, even with Soviet subs itching to sink us. Fair seas, Shipmate.

[rlmorel]

I was an aviation machinists mate...

I agree with you. The most formative and influential years of my life, FRiend...

Thank you for your service!