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Topic: John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say |
John Kerry to Be Nominated to Be Secretary of State, Sources Say
ABC News, by Jake Tapper
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Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 12/15/2012 10:16:45 PM
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| Sources tell ABC News that President Obama has decided that he will nominate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to be secretary of state. For a variety of reasons including the finalization of the process, other pending Cabinet decisions, and — more immediately — the national reaction to the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the news will not be announced in the next few days. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is recovering from an illness and a concussion she suffered upon fainting because of that illness, is set to retire in the next few weeks.
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Comments: Here we go, again. The man who spits on our Military to be nominated to be Secretary of State. Who will be protecting him overseas, should he not get "Swift-boated" and McCain gives him his approval?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Penney, 12/15/2012 10:22:21 PM (No. 9068346)
More Obama, ´´revenge?!´´ ...This choice would be an insult to the country.
dem pols have no shame
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
realrep, 12/15/2012 10:27:32 PM (No. 9068350)
Swift Boaters, please report for duty!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
realrep, 12/15/2012 10:29:54 PM (No. 9068352)
Perhaps JFK is looking for another hide-away port to hide his yacht from MA taxation. Where´s Teresa? I miss her. /s
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jl80863, 12/15/2012 10:32:22 PM (No. 9068354)
Swift Boat Vets, your nation needs you again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 12/15/2012 10:33:36 PM (No. 9068355)
John McCain will kiss J. F´n Kerry´s traitorous butt during the confirmation and then berate the honorable Swift Boat Vets when they speak out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 12/15/2012 10:37:17 PM (No. 9068357)
Perfect for the job.
He has experience talking to the enemies of the USA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ASAvet, 12/15/2012 10:43:05 PM (No. 9068360)
Hillary fainted bacause of her "illness ?" Or, because she crawled out of her vodka bottle and collapsed in a drunken heap ?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
iamtinman, 12/15/2012 10:53:54 PM (No. 9068364)
Another sad chapter in the Barack Obama story! Picking one of the most despicable figures in recent congressional history to represent the United States disgusts me and a whole lot of Vietnam vets. John Kerry has been a coward in uniform and out of it and a traitor to the country he has repeatedly sworn to support.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JonR, 12/15/2012 11:00:08 PM (No. 9068367)
Am absolute insult to every man and woman in uniform!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/15/2012 11:00:32 PM (No. 9068368)
Kerry replacing Hillary, who "faints" to get out of testifying. is this some kind of ghastly Victorian novel, with the skeletal-looking villain and the conniving female co-hort, who tries to use her feminine wiles to get around the authorities?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Cor-vet, 12/15/2012 11:11:00 PM (No. 9068379)
I guess ´Hanoi´ Jane Fonda would make a fitting deputy Sec. of State!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Griz70, 12/15/2012 11:17:38 PM (No. 9068387)
This regime is waaay beyond a joke. This is perversion and evil. God will not be happy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stencil, 12/15/2012 11:33:09 PM (No. 9068405)
Let the Prez have his head on this - Scott Brown can run to fill his Senate seat.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/15/2012 11:38:47 PM (No. 9068413)
The only thing worse than John Kerry, Secretary of State would be John Kerry, Secretary of Defense.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 12/16/2012 12:08:08 AM (No. 9068450)
Please excuse me while I go throw up.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
flatwater, 12/16/2012 12:08:14 AM (No. 9068451)
John Kerry hates America almost as much as Wise King Barky.
Hence the nomination.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
flatwater, 12/16/2012 12:14:31 AM (No. 9068462)
#7 nailed it, by the way....
I´d bet money that Hillary Clinton hit her head after climbing out of a bottle....She looks like she´s spent the last six months on a never-ending vodka bender.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cincinnati whig, 12/16/2012 12:16:13 AM (No. 9068466)
SOMEBODY please ask him during the confirmation hearings if he ever informed authorities of the VVAW guy who wanted to assassinate pro-war Senators!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dodge boy, 12/16/2012 12:25:04 AM (No. 9068477)
So if Obie´s strategy is to hire Lurch given his ugly mug, that this will scare the bad boys in the middle east, what the heck, why not.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
fiddle ed, 12/16/2012 12:47:17 AM (No. 9068499)
After the swearing in, I suggest Kerry celebrate his new position recreating the act where it all started - in front of the White House with him throwing his (so-called) medals over the fence. This world and our nation have gone insane.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 12/16/2012 1:19:15 AM (No. 9068509)
The Senate will vote him in to get him out.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 12/16/2012 1:19:18 AM (No. 9068510)
Does Obama think the people have forgotten what they learned about John Kerry in 2004? I suppose he thinks "the swift vets were debunked". Hah!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
steveW, 12/16/2012 1:36:37 AM (No. 9068515)
Miss Hillary probably longs to be home more with her loving husband. But her achievements have been vast and mighty, a literal Miracle Worker on the world stage. What a shame The Smartest Woman In The World never became commander in chief - imagine the glorious war she could have waged against The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. Oh well, maybe she´ll spend a happy winter solstice modeling lingerie for Bill.
Meanwhile, does Theresa pay her fair share?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Spidey, 12/16/2012 2:05:02 AM (No. 9068524)
The republicans have cornered themselves again. If they let Kerry sail through without a stink,then the left will say the attacks on Rice were racially driven.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Lalo, 12/16/2012 2:22:05 AM (No. 9068531)
#24, I don´t think they have to worry about the ´racially driven´ charge so much, given the glaring Benghazi faux pas so recently committed by the previous nominee. He shouldn´t come away from the proceedings unscathed though and I hope the Swift-Boaters do their thing - but he´s an improvement over Ricey.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 12/16/2012 2:55:09 AM (No. 9068543)
Hope you didn´t throw out your Scott Brown signs.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ZurichMike, 12/16/2012 2:57:59 AM (No. 9068544)
Oh, goody!
Wait until it´s Kerry v. Clinton for the 2016 Dem presidential nod.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 12/16/2012 4:02:48 AM (No. 9068563)
Wow. He´ll be the first American-hating, lying, elitist gigalo to hold the position.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet, 12/16/2012 8:15:51 AM (No. 9068715)
A true traitor to the United States. He deserves to be out of the public eye forever. I can´t think of anyone worse for the job, except maybe the current office holder, for this post. Lurch didn´t even finish his tour while in the military. What a looser.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 12/16/2012 9:17:11 AM (No. 9068847)
Seriously, since George Schultz the Sec of State and the entire department could be best described by Shakespeare in Macbeth Scene 5- Act5: "...A tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury- signifying nothing."
If someone as dense and kinky as the drunken Hildebeast has held the position, it really doesn´t matter. This blow-dried blowhard will be confirmed by 90+ votes in the Senate.
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