The Kerry Doctrine

[PoliticalChic]

When I saw the title of this NYSun article, I thought he was going to share some of the secrets that have made Secretary Kerry the most successful gigolo in the world. That, at least, might have been of some use to some folks......



1.".... expecting the “Kerry Doctrine.” It supposedly was to be unveiled Sunday in Secretary of State John Kerry’s commencement speech at Yale. What they got was an incoherent and insipid dirge, a marker for the Obama administration’s failed foreign policy..... he yakked (but only glancingly) about climate change and how slow the Amtrak Metroliner is.

2. .... Mr. Kerry had spoken at Yale when he graduated in 1966. That’s when he attacked the Vietnam War even before he went off to fight it.




3. Mr. Kerry gave the Boston Globe an interview before Sunday’s speech. It asked “what a senior in college today would make of a Kerry Doctrine,” Kerry said: “I presume they would talk about engagement and diplomacy, and, you know, making an effort.” By gum, there’s a doctrine — “making an effort.”

4. .... Mr. Kerry added. “I think we’ve had some good initiative starts.” What good starts? What in the world is he talking about? The Middle East peace process he launched in respect of Israel and her Arab enemies came a cropper....— he compounded the problem.

5. .... Kerry also threatened in Syria a war for which he couldn’t win support from his boss the president, let alone Congress. He opened in Geneva a formal appeasement of the Iranians, dressed up as talks over their nuclear-weapons program. He entered a negotiation on Ukraine for which he lacked muscle. Plus he’s talking about a “pivot” to Asia. That’s the euphemism President Obama came up with to describe his global retreat.





6. .... how could John Forbes Kerry possibly lead a pivot to Asia? He, after all, was the young agitator who did so much to beat the drums for our pivot out of Asia a generation ago.

a. Fresh off active duty in the Navy, he went to Paris and met with enemy envoys

b.....Then he returned to America to plump for the communists’ talking points.

c. He testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he likened our GIs to Genghis Khan and accused them of war crimes. ... Our GIs (and our South Vietnamese allies) were still in combat in the jungles of Indochina.





7. In 1966, he’d attacked the Rusk Doctrine, named for one of our greatest state secretaries, Dean Rusk, who was a principled hawk against communism in Vietnam and elsewhere.

8. .... Kerry spent decades in the Senate opposing US intervention anywhere and everywhere. That was then. Yet now, suddenly, Mr. Kerry lamented Sunday, America suffers from an “excess of isolation.”
The Kerry Doctrine - The New York Sun




I, for one, see no better foreign policy spokesperson of the whiz in the White House than this guy!

 

[Spoonman]

funny, but all you ever hear about in the media regarding Kerry lately is some screw up or poor choice of words. not much positive happening on his front.

 

[PoliticalChic]

funny, but all you ever hear about in the media regarding Kerry lately is some screw up or poor choice of words. not much positive happening on his front.

Well, then....working for Obama, he's the right man for the job.

 

[Old Rocks]

Ah yes, longing for the good old days, two failed wars, a close brush with the Second Great Republican Depression. Yessirreee.......... them were the days.

 

[Fishlore]

Conditions at home and abroad are such that no possible foreign policy can succeed at the present time. America's political system is paralyzed and it people angry, fearful and quarrelsome like pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

The Cold War global alignment of First, Second, and Third World teams of nations has broken down completely and a stable paradigm of global national interests has yet to emerge.

The good news is that the new chaos and the new American helplessness seem to not involve wars between nations although bloody civil strife is tragically common in countries (not all of them members of the old Third World) whose political mechanisms are unable to contain ethnic or ideological conflicts.

So, the bottom line is that Kerry can't fix anything. Obama can't fix anything either and neither can Putin. The upcoming elections in the EU and the USA are both likely to make the problem worse, not better. While there may be number of theoretical solutions to the world's problems, no nation or group of nations is capable of implementing any of them at the present time. LIke I said, we are pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Conditions at home and abroad are such that no possible foreign policy can succeed at the present time. America's political system is paralyzed and it people angry, fearful and quarrelsome like pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

The Cold War global alignment of First, Second, and Third World teams of nations has broken down completely and a stable paradigm of global national interests has yet to emerge.

The good news is that the new chaos and the new American helplessness seem to not involve wars between nations although bloody civil strife is tragically common in countries (not all of them members of the old Third World) whose political mechanisms are unable to contain ethnic or ideological conflicts.

So, the bottom line is that Kerry can't fix anything. Obama can't fix anything either and neither can Putin. The upcoming elections in the EU and the USA are both likely to make the problem worse, not better. While there may be number of theoretical solutions to the world's problems, no nation or group of nations is capable of implementing any of them at the present time. LIke I said, we are pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

"....no possible foreign policy can succeed...."

Well, not if the present occupant of the White House is in charge.

Face facts: the man was never prepared to wield the power of the presidency.


Failure....starting from day one.


1. Biden: Obama will be tested:
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Biden: Obama will be tested - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com
Even Biden knew this guy was a lightweight!
a. There is some doubt that Senator Obama knew who the president of France was. Obama writes letter to Chirac - blogosphere goes crazy - CSMonitor.com
b. And, this Illinois senator suggested that he would offer American diplomatic intervention to aid Pakistan toward Kashmir. http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Barack-Obamas-Kashmir-thesis/380615/
c. The Obama White House misspelled the name of the president of Brazil. Lula And Obama Meet On Saturday To Discuss Financial Crisis, Regional Politics
d. Obama refuses to support the rule of law in Honduras. The Rougblog: Another Obama Gaffe in Foreign Policy

2. “The Iranian regime, having spent the first couple of weeks of Barack Obama's presidency preemptively scorning his overtures, mocking his weakness, and assuring the world its nuclear program is nonnegotiable, last Tuesday reported it had launched a satellite into orbit, making clear that Iran intends to have a missile launch capability on which to deploy its nuclear warheads.” Testing 1-2-3 | The Weekly Standard
a. “In the last several days it has been reported that Iran is planning to place medium-range missiles in Venezuela. Such information seems to confirm last November’s article published by the German daily Die Welt. The newspaper reported that an agreement was signed last October between the two countries; a fact that has remained mostly unknown to the public.” Breitbart News: Big Peace

3. “On the same day as the Iranian satellite launch, it was reported that, under pressure and inducements from Russia, Kyrgyzstan would no longer allow the United States to use an airbase that supports coalition military operations in Afghanistan. This came as Obama plans to increase U.S. force levels in Afghanistan, and the already overburdened supply lines from Pakistan seem increasingly vulnerable to attacks from Taliban forces in that country's frontier areas.” (Testing 1-2-3 | The Weekly Standard.)
a. And, continued to back down: “Barack Obama has abandoned the controversial Pentagon plan to build a missile defence system in Europe that had long soured relations with Russia.”
Obama abandons missile defence shield in Europe | World news | theguardian.com
b. Announcing the formation of a “rapid reaction force” with six former Soviet republics, a regional Russian-led strike force meant to reassert Russian hegemony in the Muslim belt north of Afghanistan. Krauthammer: Obama faces foreign tests and shows a lack of spine - Houston Chronicle
c. Planning to establish a Black Sea naval base in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia, conquered by Moscow last summer. (ibid.)
d. Obama begs Russians not to make him look bad before the election: “Obama tells Russia's Medvedev more flexibility after election” Obama tells Russia's Medvedev more flexibility after election | Reuters
e. "Russia has deployed S-400 mobile surface-to-air missiles along the Polish and Lithuanian border in Kaliningrad, bnn-news.com reports referring to the Russian newspaper Izvestia."
Russia deploys S-400 missile defence in Kaliningrad | The Lithuania TribuneThe Lithuania Tribune


4. “And on that very same day, North Korea, having in the first week of the Obama presidency scrapped all its agreements with South Korea and warned of war on the Korean peninsula, was reported to be preparing to test a new ballistic missile, the Taepodong-2, which is intended to eventually have a long enough range to hit U.S. territory.” Kristol, (op. cit.)
De Borchgrave: Obama Administration 'Totally Blind' in Confronting North Korea
Read more on Newsmax.com: De Borchgrave: Obama Administration 'Totally Blind' in Confronting North Korea
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a. Foreign policy expert Arnaud de Borchgrave tells Newsmax that U.S. intelligence agencies exhibited serious flaws in being “totally blind” to the death of North Korea leader Kim Jong Il.

Despite the massive resources of the United States’ 16 intelligence services, with100,000 employees and an annual combined budget of about $80 billion a year, they didn’t know about Kim’s death on Saturday until North Korea finally announced it on Sunday, the award-winning journalist noted during an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV.
De Borchgrave: Obama Administration 'Totally Blind' in Confronting North Korea


5. “Pakistan freed from house arrest A.Q. Khan, the notorious proliferator who sold nuclear technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran. Ten days later, Islamabad capitulated to the Taliban, turning over to its tender mercies the Swat Valley, 100 miles from the capital. Not only will sharia law now reign there, but the democratically elected secular party will be hunted down as the Pakistani army stands down.” Krauthammer, (op. cit.)

So, is this President capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time? Is he competent to juggle all of the responsibilities of his office? Perhaps not, based on his inane statement to CNN's Anderson Cooper, in February of 2009: "Look, the only measure of my success as president, when people look back five years from now or nine years from now, is going to be, did I get this economy fixed?"


6. With three years to negotiate with Iraq on a basis for leaving an American troop presence in Iraq to serve as a counterbalance to Iranian pressure in post war Iraq, and to protect the American diplomats and embassy there, he was unable to!

Rather than this event as one of promise-keeping, it is one more sign of the incompetence of this President.

He has no more achievements in foreign policy than in domestic.

"The formation will be distributed as follows: 8,000 servicemen labeled US diplomats would be attached to operations command centers housed in secret, secure quarters at the embassy in Baghdad and in US consulates in Iraqi cities, including missions yet to be opened,” states the report. “Another 7,000 troops were classified as US security officers – 4,000 for protecting “US diplomats” and 3,000 as military instructors.”
Prison Planet.com » 15,000 US Troops to Remain In Iraq, Renamed “Diplomats”
(the source is the Depka File)

By way of comparison, the US has some 60,000 troops in Europe.
BBC NEWS | Americas | US troops to remain in Europe


7. Failure to destroy the drone that landed in Iran is a dereliction of duty.
“At the very least, this shows why the idea of Obama as “commander in chief” is absurd and laughable. Who ever heard of a Commander who was afraid to command troops into battle? At it’s worst, it shows a conspiracy theory of the highest magnitude. Many could rightly conclude that Obama’s refusal to either destroy or recapture the drone would prove that he purposely gave them the drone.” EXPOSED! Obama REFUSED To Recapture Or Destroy Million Dollar Drone In Iran - Now The End Begins : Now The End Begins

8. Another foreign policy failure by the pretender in the White House:
“The United States is "disgusted" by Russia and China's decision to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution today that called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said today….The vetoes came after a week of intense negotiations to gain Russian support for a resolution it had opposed from the start. The resolution supported an Arab League plan that called for an immediate end to the violence in Syria and a political solution to the crisis. “
http://news.yahoo.com/us-disgusted-russia-china-veto-un-resolution-end-184027274--abc-news.html

9. Alienated
Poland
Honduras
Israel
Canada
Britain
Czech Republic



10. Obama engagement policy 'in tatters' after North Korean rocket defiance
US officials expect Pyongyang to carry out third nuclear test in near future, respresenting significant policy failure for president.. Barack Obama's policy of engagement with North Korea lies "in tatters" after it was effectively shot down by Pynongyang's defiant but failed attempt to launch a long-range rocket.
Former US officials closely involved with North Korea policy said Washington's attempt to win agreement from Pyongyang to abandon its development of nuclear weapons and rockets in exchange for desperately-needed food aid has failed.
Obama engagement policy 'in tatters' after North Korean rocket defiance | World news | theguardian.com

11. 1."WARSAW, Poland -- Poland's prime minister said Wednesday he wasn't completely satisfied with a White House explanation that President Barack Obama misspoke when he referred to "Polish death camps" during a ceremony honoring a World War II hero, saying he wants a "stronger, more pointed" response.

2.The phrasing is considered hugely offensive in Poland, where Nazi Germany murdered Poles, Jews and others in death camps it built during World War II on Polish and German territory.

3. Poles have responded with outrage, maintaining Obama should have called it a "German death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland," to distinguish the perpetrators from the location.

4. Donald Tusk said he was accepting a White House explanation that Obama misspoke but was still waiting for a "stronger, more pointed reaction" that could eliminate the phrasing "once and for all."

5. Tusk said it was a "matter of the U.S.'s reputation." He hinted it should include facts about Nazi Germany's brutal occupation of Poland.

6. Former President and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the phrase confused henchmen with their victims...

7. The Polish Embassy in Washington, on its website, has a "how-to guide" on concentration camps that states that references to Polish death camps are "factually incorrect slurs" that should be corrected."
Obama 'Polish death camp' reference: Poles outraged over president's comment



12. This story hasn’t gotten much traction in the mainstream media, but Texas Sen. John Cornyn has been on it all week: Russian submarine activity in the Gulf of Mexico.
After receiving no satisfaction to earlier comments to the media, Cornyn wrote a letter today to Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the Pentagon’s Chief of Naval Operations, demanding answers.
“The submarine patrol, taken together with the air incursions, seems to represent a more aggressive and destabilizing Russian military stance that could pose risks to our national security,” Cornyn wrote. “This is especially troubling given the drastic defense cuts sought by President Obama, which include reductions in funding for antisubmarine defense systems.”
The story has received relatively little attention since appearing in the conservative media outlet The Washington Free Beacon. According to the original report by longtime military correspondent Bill Gertz:
Red October redux? John Cornyn demands answers from Pentagon on Russian sub in Gulf of Mexico (UPDATED) - Texas on the Potomac


13. Benghazi, Libya...our installation is attacked, the administration follows it in real time....

"It wasn't a copycat. It was a sustained attack that lasted for six or eight hours,..."
Althouse: After the Benghazi attack: "We're going through a mission accomplished moment."


...and there is no rapid-response team sent????

No air cover????
“Some lawmakers are asking why U.S. military help from outside Libya didn't arrive as terrorists battered more than 30 Americans over the course of more than seven hours. The assault was launched by an armed mob of dozens that torched buildings and used rocket propelled grenades, mortars and AK-47 rifles. CBS News has been told that, hours after the attack began, an unmanned Predator drone was sent over the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and that the drone and other reconnaissance aircraft apparently observed the final hours of the protracted battle. Could U.S. military have helped during Libya attack? - CBS News



14. "President Obama’s foreign policy is based on fantasy

FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which “the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances — these were things of the past. Secretary of State John F. Kerry displayed this mindset on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday when he said, of Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine, “It’s a 19th century act in the 21st century.”
Since the Syrian dictator crossed Mr. Obama’s red line with a chemical weapons attack that killed 1,400 civilians, the dictator’s military and diplomatic position has steadily strengthened.

There were similar retrenchments after the Korea and Vietnam wars and when the Soviet Union crumbled. But the United States discovered each time that the world became a more dangerous place without its leadership and that disorder in the world could threaten U.S. prosperity. Each period of retrenchment was followed by more active (though not always wiser) policy. Today Mr. Obama has plenty of company in his impulse, within both parties and as reflected by public opinion. But he’s also in part responsible for the national mood: If a president doesn’t make the case for global engagement, no one else effectively can.
Military strength, trustworthiness as an ally, staying power in difficult corners of the world such as Afghanistan — these still matter, much as we might wish they did not. While the United States has been retrenching, the tide of democracy in the world, which once seemed inexorable, has been receding. In the long run, that’s harmful to U.S. national security, too.
President Obama?s foreign policy is based on fantasy - The Washington Post


15. When Barack Obama took office, he pledged a new overture to the world’s emerging powers. Today each of the Brics – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – is at loggerheads with America, or worse. Last month four of the five abstained in a UN vote condemning the fifth’s annexation of Crimea. Next month India is likely to elect as its new leader Narendra Modi, who says he has “no interest in visiting America other than to attend the UN in New York”. As the world’s largest democracy, and America’s most natural ally among the emerging powers, India’s is a troubling weathervane. How on earth did Mr Obama lose the Brics?
How Obama lost friends and influence in the Brics - FT.com

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Conditions at home and abroad are such that no possible foreign policy can succeed at the present time. America's political system is paralyzed and it people angry, fearful and quarrelsome like pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

The Cold War global alignment of First, Second, and Third World teams of nations has broken down completely and a stable paradigm of global national interests has yet to emerge.

The good news is that the new chaos and the new American helplessness seem to not involve wars between nations although bloody civil strife is tragically common in countries (not all of them members of the old Third World) whose political mechanisms are unable to contain ethnic or ideological conflicts.

So, the bottom line is that Kerry can't fix anything. Obama can't fix anything either and neither can Putin. The upcoming elections in the EU and the USA are both likely to make the problem worse, not better. While there may be number of theoretical solutions to the world's problems, no nation or group of nations is capable of implementing any of them at the present time. LIke I said, we are pre-schoolers in need of a nap.

Forget the nap, what we need is a national spanking and some time in the corner to grow the fuck up.

 

[PredFan]

PC wins! Good job girl.

 

[PoliticalChic]

How about a trip down Memory Lane?

" But Kerry strategists and backers never seemed to pay much heed to that lesson of the past. They plunged headlong into painting Bush as the dummy and Kerry as the genius.

Kerry himself apparently believed it. In April 2004, he was quoted in Newsweek as saying, "I can't believe I am losing to this idiot." The widely published remark was made in an aside to aides while watching a Bush news conference.

That theme carried over after Kerry lost. Many of his backers publicly attributed Bush's victory to a dumb electorate. During the campaign, his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, underscored that feeling while promoting Kerry's health care plan.
"Only an idiot wouldn't like this," she told the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pa.




Kerry's grades were made public this past week by the Boston Globe, which found them in his U.S. Navy officer training school application. During the campaign, Kerry refused to waive privacy restrictions for the full file, but gave the Navy permission to release the documents last month, the Globe reported.

The transcript showed that he got four Ds in his freshman year, Bush received one D in his four years, in astronomy. At the time, Yale considered grades between 70 and 79 a C and 60 to 69 a D.
Bush, in an interview last Wednesday with Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel, was asked what he thought about the release of the Kerry transcripts.

Cavuto, however, pressed on: " Yes. He was billed as the intellectual, though, and you had better grades in college."
But Bush did not jump at the opportunity to revel in it: "Yes. Well, as I said, I like to lower expectations."
USATODAY.com - Who is smarter, Kerry or Bush?





BTW..." The Obama campaign has refused to release his college transcript, despite an academic career that led him to Harvard Law School and, later, to a lecturing position at the University of Chicago. "
Obama's Years at Columbia Are a Mystery - The New York Sun

Hmmmmm......

 

[Pete7469]

Kerry is dumber than Bush.

Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student - The Boston Globe

 

[TemplarKormac]

Wow. PC really cleaned house. Goodness. I guess my services aren't needed here. Good job.

 

[PoliticalChic]

For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--




Well....let's continue with this paean to the best the Democrat Party has to offer...


1. Sen. John Kerry, who has repeatedly voted to raise taxes while in Congress, dodged a whopping six-figure state tax bill on his new multimillion-dollar yacht by mooring her in Newport, R.I.

2. But instead of berthing the vessel in Nantucket, where the senator summers with the missus, Teresa Heinz, Isabel’s hailing port is listed as “Newport” on her stern.

3. Could the reason be that the Ocean State repealed its Boat Sales and Use Tax back in 1993, making the tiny state to the south a haven - like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Nassau - for tax-skirting luxury yacht owners?

4. Cash-strapped Massachusetts still collects a 6.25 percent sales tax and an annual excise tax on yachts. Sources say Isabel sold for something in the neighborhood of $7 million, meaning Kerry saved approximately $437,500 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of about $70,000.
http://bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/20100723senator_skipper_skips_town_on_sails_tax


And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.



"Is anyone naive enough to believe that multimillionaire Democrats such as Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Dianne Feinstein and Herb Kohl are eager to transfer half of their wealth to the unwashed masses through the estate tax? If the federal death tax is unearthed from its grave, they won't pay -- but they'll keep voting to make sure you might have to."
Hypocrites! Hypocrites! Hypocrites! | Las Vegas Review-Journal



O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

 

[R.C. Christian]

He's carrying the same torch from the BA but he and his advisers are doing a horrible job of maintaining U.S. hegemony in their little unipolar world which is because they're up against far more intelligent enemies.

 

[PoliticalChic]

He's carrying the same torch from the BA but he and his advisers are doing a horrible job of maintaining U.S. hegemony in their little unipolar world which is because they're up against far more intelligent enemies.

1. "....because they're up against far more intelligent enemies."

Au contraire....not possible.

Here....let me prove it:

"The White House takes pride in the fact that Obama’s PDB is “not briefed to him” – because, they say, he is “among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet.” That hubris brings to mind this revealing quote from a September 2008 New York Times profile of Obama:

“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”

So it should come as no surprise that apparently Barack Obama thinks he’s a better intelligence briefer than his intelligence briefers.
Obama: I?m a better intelligence briefer than my intelligence briefers | AEIdeas




2. Actually, your point is spot on.

I have posted extensively about Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, in which the exact point you have made is the explanation for the history of the 20th century.

 

[DriftingSand]

Ah yes, longing for the good old days, two failed wars, a close brush with the Second Great Republican Depression. Yessirreee.......... them were the days.

One of which is maintained by your messiah, Obama. Are you aware that more American men have died in Afghanistan under Obama's 1st term and partial 2nd term than died under Bush's entire 8 years? Yup! Instead of wrapping things up in Afghanistan Obama has allowed it to escalate to the point that more Americans have died under his watch. And what has Kerry done to solve that problem? Nada!!!

 

[Fishlore]

[...
"....no possible foreign policy can succeed...."

Well, not if the present occupant of the White House is in charge.

Face facts: the man was never prepared to wield the power of the presidency.


Failure....starting from day one....

The international situation is never the result of one man or one policy. Obama, even at his worst, has been better the GWB, who lost two wars simultaneously and was asleep at the wheel on 9/11. But neither of these American presidents can be blamed for the paralysis of the EU, the failure of the UN in Africa or the rapidly rising tensions in Asia.

The world wide problems of the early 21st century come from a combination of economic, technological and cultural forces that no single nation has created and which no single nation can control. Personification of the situation in a single villain is an oversimplification.

 

[PoliticalChic]

[...
"....no possible foreign policy can succeed...."

Well, not if the present occupant of the White House is in charge.

Face facts: the man was never prepared to wield the power of the presidency.


Failure....starting from day one....

The international situation is never the result of one man or one policy. Obama, even at his worst, has been better the GWB, who lost two wars simultaneously and was asleep at the wheel on 9/11. But neither of these American presidents can be blamed for the paralysis of the EU, the failure of the UN in Africa or the rapidly rising tensions in Asia.

The world wide problems of the early 21st century come from a combination of economic, technological and cultural forces that no single nation has created and which no single nation can control. Personification of the situation in a single villain is an oversimplification.

Blind-eye syndrome in effect.


"Obama, even at his worst, has been better the GWB, who lost two wars simultaneously and was asleep at the wheel on 9/11."

Oh.....and also......you're a moron.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And this tale of Kerry burnishing his Liberal credentials by demanding opposing voices be silenced:

"Following in the footsteps of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) called on the media to censor Tea Party ideas that he and others like him consider "absurd" or "not factual."


"The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual, it doesn't deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do," Kerry said while appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe Friday.




As Noel Sheppard writes at Newsbusters, this is exactly what Krugman wrote last week, but Kerry wasn't finished.

We have to, have to find a way to get some of these people in Congress, who are locked in to just one view about where we can go, and, and that’s really what’s hampered us. You know, when I have a top Senator in the Republican leadership tell me that he’s been calling members of his delegation and he can’t persuade them to do something reasonable here, that all they’re focused on are cutting, cutting, cutting, we got a problem.


What Kerry and so many of his fellow liberals fail to understand is that the nation's economy is on a very fast train to a very hot place, and the Tea Party Republicans were elected to bring fiscal sanity back to Washington.
Another Jacka$$ Senator John Kerry: MEDIA SHOULD CENSOR TEA PARTY in Politics Forum





And, like any good Liberal, Kerry would like to see American sovereignty turned over to Soviet-inspired United Nations....

"... a view given expression during the 2004 presidential campaign by Senator Kerry—holding that American foreign policy should meet some kind of “global test.” By this way of thinking, America needs, in effect, to demonstrate the legitimacy of its foreign policy decisions by getting the approval of the U.N. Security Council or some other international body In the 21st century, then—just as in the 20th—the political decisions we make here in the U.S. will be much more significant than those made at the U.N."
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=04




Is there anything in the above that doesn't also represent the views of the current President?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's not leave out Kerry's partners-in-crime, in the media:

"The Boston Globe biography of Kerry published earlier this year compliantly repeats Kerry's yarn about how he spent Christmas 1968 in Cambodia "despite President Nixon's assurances that there was no combat action in this neutral territory."


Only recently did someone point out:
(1) Kerry was 55 miles away from the Cambodian border on Christmas 1968 and
(2) Nixon wasn't president in 1968. (How did "historian" Doug Brinkley miss that in his biography of Kerry?)



The media will spend weeks going through pay stubs for Bush's National Guard service in Alabama in the waning days of war, but if Kerry tells them exotic tales of covert missions into Cambodia directed by Richard Nixon, they don't even bother to fact-check who was president in December 1968."
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=28

 

[jon_berzerk]

funny, but all you ever hear about in the media regarding Kerry lately is some screw up or poor choice of words. not much positive happening on his front.

because he is a fucwad