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Topic: President Obama nominating John Kerry to be next secretary of state |
President Obama nominating John Kerry to be next secretary of state
Boston Globe, by Glen Johnson
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/21/2012 10:44:56 AM
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| President Obama is poised to nominate Senator John F. Kerry this afternoon to be the country’s next secretary of state, according to Washington officials briefed on the decision. The announcement was to come after Kerry returned from the National Cathedral in Washington, where he was attending the funeral of former colleague Senator Daniel Inouye. The White House planned to add the announcement to the president’s schedule, said the officials, who demanded anonymity to preempt the formal announcement.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MarkTwain, 12/21/2012 10:50:52 AM (No. 9077688)
I think this choice is quite proper. Who better than Kerry to represent Obama´s gutless, appeasing, apologizing and cowardly foreign policy?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 12/21/2012 10:51:26 AM (No. 9077691)
Secretary of Hate (the USA).
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
horacer, 12/21/2012 10:58:17 AM (No. 9077714)
The F stands for flexible, as in anything goes if you hate America as much as John Forbes Kerry and Obama. Who needs respect when you can appease.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
god of irony, 12/21/2012 11:00:41 AM (No. 9077720)
And I am sure that none of his "good friends across the aisle" will dare to ask why he was discharged from the Navy with a less than honorable discharge. Or call him out on his treasonous activities to including throwing military medals and conducting unofficial state negotiations contrary to US position in a time of war.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cav160, 12/21/2012 11:03:06 AM (No. 9077726)
Isn´t he a war hero? /s/
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ocjim, 12/21/2012 11:07:53 AM (No. 9077741)
Yet another Obama outrage. One of his worst. Start up the Swift Boats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 12/21/2012 11:14:27 AM (No. 9077755)
The vote will, most likely, be 99-0 in favor. Bracing for all the flowery endorsements from his Republican "frat brothers."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
miceal, 12/21/2012 11:17:28 AM (No. 9077761)
Yet another slap in the face to Conservative REAL Americans. This treasonous dolt typifies EVERYTHING that is wrong with our Country. I hope and pray his "Swift Boat" buddies tear him a "new one!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon, 12/21/2012 11:17:49 AM (No. 9077764)
Accused US troops of "terrorizing" Iraqi´s
Accused US troops in Vietnam of cutting off ears, heads, and raping locals.
Sided with Communists in Nicaragua
Evaded Mass. State tax on a 7 mill dollar yacht ($500,000) by registering it in rhode island.
He appeared highly qualified to represent the US on the international stage.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
janylou, 12/21/2012 11:18:03 AM (No. 9077766)
I wonder if his cranium will be able to contain his ego? God help us!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/21/2012 11:18:46 AM (No. 9077771)
O sure does love to surround himself with America haters.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
richwill, 12/21/2012 11:22:46 AM (No. 9077792)
One more result of Hussein telling the American people, screw you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dr.lakerman, 12/21/2012 11:23:57 AM (No. 9077796)
words fail me.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bugboy, 12/21/2012 11:26:17 AM (No. 9077804)
I thought we fell in the rabbit hole, seems to me I hear the swirling of water. Listen!
Forget the Mayans, could our pending doom be any closer?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ronnietheK, 12/21/2012 11:29:07 AM (No. 9077816)
Lurch will lurch to the left.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone, 12/21/2012 11:29:15 AM (No. 9077818)
Look for the liberal Democrats in Massachusetts to change the law there and again give the liberal Democrat Governor the authority to appoint Kerry´s replacement in the US Senate permanently, if it looks like a Republican could win the special election.
That´s the way it used to be there until the liberal Democrats set up the current special election process to keep a former Republican Governor from appointing a replacement after Ted Kennedy passed away.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
deepthinker, 12/21/2012 11:30:32 AM (No. 9077820)
Questions from Senator Deepthinker:
1. What message does it send to our allies to appoint you, who worked so hard to sell the South Vietnamese down the river?
2. How can we take your testimony here seriously after you lied repeatedly , on the Senate floor, about spending Christmas in Cambodia and listening to President Nixon on the wireless--when you had returned from South East Asia BEFORE Nixon became president?
Just getting started...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
spincut, 12/21/2012 11:31:00 AM (No. 9077822)
C´mon, can Lurch be any worse than Hillary? And now we´ll have four more years of Theresa Heinz Kerry to entertain us!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hotrod, 12/21/2012 11:36:47 AM (No. 9077839)
I´m not sure he is qualified. Can he lie as good as Hillary! (I know he is a liar, but this is an important job!) The rest of the world already knows that the Obama administration is a joke, so Kerry won´t be much of a letdown to them. They will play him like a fiddle!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
zzzghy, 12/21/2012 11:40:38 AM (No. 9077849)
The piaps is out, and j. effin´ k. is in.
I´m not sure if anyone will even notice.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
drkillj0y, 12/21/2012 11:41:39 AM (No. 9077854)
It´s a sure fire way to get him out of the Senate because he´ll just stay in there for life otherwise. After a couple of months as the SOT he´ll sure FUBARed something and gets thrown under the bus. Problem solved.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 12/21/2012 11:43:39 AM (No. 9077860)
This was the plan from day 1. Susan Rice was a distraction to grease the skids for the horse faced gigolo.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
valinva, 12/21/2012 11:44:59 AM (No. 9077863)
You rang?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 12/21/2012 11:48:55 AM (No. 9077869)
Poster #23 is right. If mccain defends kerry and attacks the Swift Boat Vets, then we´ll know for sure that it was a set-up.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MMC, 12/21/2012 11:53:36 AM (No. 9077881)
I read the comments on Yahoo news.... Not favorable to Obama or Kerry.
Swift Boat Vets commence vetting Kerry.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
novakid, 12/21/2012 11:57:50 AM (No. 9077896)
Well, I suppose it will hard to be worse than Hillary.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Blackeagle, 12/21/2012 12:02:45 PM (No. 9077902)
His main qualification is that he is not currently suffering from a head concussion.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Magic8Ball, 12/21/2012 12:04:36 PM (No. 9077906)
Forin Polisee in the manner of Jenjus Con.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/21/2012 12:08:23 PM (No. 9077916)
Which means if Scott Brown manages to win the special election, that Massachusetts will have a fake Indian and a fake Republican as its senators. Perhaps Scott will be given the committee assignment that Elizabeth Warren rejected, Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
jfodoch, 12/21/2012 12:08:52 PM (No. 9077919)
First we have bfd biden, and now kerry -- who´s next, algore?
king urkel and the 3 stooges!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
kanphil, 12/21/2012 12:15:33 PM (No. 9077938)
Uh-oh. Cue the Swift Boat vets.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
strike3, 12/21/2012 12:27:52 PM (No. 9077975)
Surely obama must be running out of polluted swamps from which to dredge government officials.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Phantomll, 12/21/2012 12:28:39 PM (No. 9077976)
I put Jon Cary in the same category as Hanoi Jane Fonda. Traitors both.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
wendybird, 12/21/2012 12:29:40 PM (No. 9077980)
If Mrs. Clinton could do such a good job, then J. F. Kerry can do a good job. Also, Bozo the Clown would be good in the position.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
mythman, 12/21/2012 12:40:18 PM (No. 9078004)
#23 nails it.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 12/21/2012 12:56:25 PM (No. 9078030)
It looks like Obama is appointing a new criminal to head SOS in place of the old criminal. Another POS from Obama.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 12/21/2012 1:04:37 PM (No. 9078040)
Our postmodern reprise of the Sixties would not be complete without the Left wing anti-Vietnam war radical, John Kerry. The whole scene reminds me of the cast members of a stage performance coming back on stage to rounds of applause. The performance was the Sixties and that followed - and the applause is coming mainly from the cast members themselves.
The next four years won´t be pretty, but the good news is that there is reason to hope that they will educate an electorate that is sorely in need of instruction as to how to select its leaders in the future. Some people -most people, it seems- must learn the hard way.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 12/21/2012 1:33:50 PM (No. 9078089)
What?
Old Horse Face for SuckState.
#3 kind of hit it correctly too.
Kerry is Horse Face.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 12/21/2012 2:35:25 PM (No. 9078186)
That should give the entire civilized world a lot of laughs.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Penney, 12/21/2012 3:03:16 PM (No. 9078226)
0bama, ...the, ´´revenge,´´ statist dem President. mmm mmm mmm
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
john56, 12/21/2012 3:17:39 PM (No. 9078243)
Has Hillary even resigned yet?
Too bad the Stupid Party (GOP) doesn´t give Senator Liveshot the same treatment the Democrats gave folks like Senator Tower (RIP) from Texas when he was nominated for the cabinet.
I think their complaint was that the Senator occasionally had a drink or two.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Marzon, 12/21/2012 3:23:56 PM (No. 9078260)
Ironically, he will have to come up with an answer to his infamous question: "How Do You Ask a Man to be the Last Man to Die for a Mistake?"
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
Mai Bad, 12/21/2012 3:45:28 PM (No. 9078297)
Yo..yo...BaaHaaaHaa Swift Boat Kerry??? BaaHaaaHaa !
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
pineledger, 12/21/2012 3:51:05 PM (No. 9078303)
It appears the office of Secretary of State has become a magnet for failed presidential candidates.
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