U.S. Senator John Kerry Being Considered For U.S. Secretary Of Defense

[Annie]

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Photo: U.S. Senator John Kerry

Obama Considering John Kerry For Job Of Defense Secretary -- Washington Post

President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.

Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, senior administration officials familiar with the transition planning said that nomination will almost certainly go to Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Read more .... Obama considers John Kerry for job of defense secretary - The Washington Post

Exactly what Qualifies him for the Position? Other than his loyalty to the left?

Nothing..It's being done to move Kerry into a position to be a democrat candidate for president in 2016.

Whoops, which Democrat shows up in the weirdest story of the week?

Gen. John Allen also helped Jill Kelley's sister during custody battle - NYPOST.com

Gen. John Allen also helped Jill Kelley's sister during custody battle

* By GEOFF EARLE and DAN MANGAN
* Last Updated: 3:48 PM, November 13, 2012
* Posted: 10:46 AM, November 13, 2012


...And in court documents filed by Kelley's sister Natalie Khawam, she name-drops both Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island -- who both have ties to a Providence, RI, lawyer/Democratic fundraiser who loaned a whopping $300,000 to Khawam.

A spokesman for Whitehouse today that lawyer, Gerald Harrington, has dated and "may have been engaged to Khawam." Harrington has not returned a call seeking comment.

Khawam claimed in a July 12 letter to her estranged husband that she took their now 4-year-old son "on vacation last year to Martha Vineyard," where their son and "I had a great time at the DSCC [Democratic Senate Campaign Committee] event."

"Sen. John Kerry asked if [her son] would be coming again this year," Khawam wrote. "[Their son] was a superstar at the DSCC last year."

A spokeswoman for Kerry – who the Washington Post reports is being considered as President Obama's next secretary of defense -- in an email comment wrote, "Senator Kerry’s friend Jerry Harrington introduced him to his girlfriend (Natalie) at a DSCC event."

Also filed in that court case by Khawam is a letter, on United States Senate stationary, from Whitehouse, who like Kerry is a Democrat.

That letter was written to Harrington, who has been a fundraiser for Kerry and other Democrats out of Rhode Island. Harrington, according to Khawam's federal bankruptcy filing earlier this year in Florida, gave her a personal loan of $300,000...

 

[Too Tall]

James Rassmann (born ~1948) is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lieutenant who served with the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group in the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969.[1] Now a resident of the U.S. state of Oregon, he has credited U.S. Senator John Kerry with having rescued him from the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969.[1]

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star medal, but the two did not maintain a relationship for the following 30 years. Rassman gained national prominence during the 2004 Presidential election when he publicly denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's campaign against Kerry.

Rassman is now a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy sheriff and an "avid" orchid grower.[1]

If Rassman believes everything that Kerry said about the American military then he has been smoking those orchid's.

Nobody has said that Kerry was not in Vietnam even though it was a short period of time. His heroics are what is in question.

I never met Kerry or Rassman in Vietnam but some vets did even though he was there for such a short period of time and they have every right to speak to his so called valor.

No man has the right to question another man's valor or honor if that man served in combat

What do you think of these statements that John Kerry made questioning other mens valor and honor while they were still serving in combat?

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

He made these statements in a Senate hearing that was televised on C-Span.

 

[Stephanie]

With this administration anything goes, now we get a traitor to our military in as Sec. of Defense...

Shrilly Clinton, a no nothing Senator as Secretary of State..

don't you all fweel safe?

 

[LibertyLemming]

The fact that the word defense is still in that title is ridiculous.

 

[SniperFire]

Won't happen. Scott Brown could seriously gain the seat.

 

[freedombecki]

With this administration anything goes, now we get a traitor to our military in as Sec. of Defense...

Shrilly Clinton, a no nothing Senator as Secretary of State..

don't you all fweel safe?

Obama is reaching out to humiliate his enemies.

He's figured out what will cause chaos and going for it.

Jeremiah Wright taught him to God damn America for 20 years, and he's obeying.

Together, he and Kerry will destroy the American military so we can never defend ourselves from Islamic terrorists again.

 

[Too Tall]

That's an outright LIE and you know damned well those who served under him trashed his leadership in a book that came out during the '04 campaign.

Turn your rep back on so I can neg your lion ass.

name a few of the men who served UNDER Kerry in combat who trashed him in a book

You said you met them, you name them. Did the ones you say you met join Kerry in throwing their medals away?

Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president, Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam.

"I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," Kerry said in an interview on a Washington, D.C., news program on WRC-TV called Viewpoints on Nov. 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by ABCNEWS.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw away any of his medals during an anti-war protest in April 1971.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=123495&page=1

 

[9thIDdoc]

"No man has the right to question another man's valor or honor if that man served in combat."

Kerry did his best to defame all who served in Vietnam.

 

[Stephanie]

"No man has the right to question another man's valor or honor if that man served in combat."

Kerry did his best to defame all who served in Vietnam.

That's how much Obama cares about OUR MILITARY and service members, thinks of selecting Kerry

 

[daveman]

by War News Updates Editor @ War News Updates: U.S. Senator John Kerry Being Considered For U.S. Secretary Of Defense

Photo: U.S. Senator John Kerry

Obama Considering John Kerry For Job Of Defense Secretary -- Washington Post

President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus.

Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, senior administration officials familiar with the transition planning said that nomination will almost certainly go to Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Read more .... Obama considers John Kerry for job of defense secretary - The Washington Post

Well, that's a fine way to officially shit all over Vietnam veterans.

President Obama, you're absolutely clueless. Speaking as a 20-year veteran, the troops will NOT support Hahoi John as SecDef.

 

[Defiant1]

Isn't anyone concerned about John Kerry's health?

With all those old war wounds and all......

 

[LibertyLemming]

The fact that the word defense is still in that title is ridiculous.

best post of the thread.


thx i agree

 

[daveman]

The man is a war hero.

this is how you on the right honor service

"War heroes" don't lie about their fellow servicemen.

Kerry is a liar. There is no rational way to refute this.

You, however, will attempt to do so irrationally.

 

[GoneBezerk]

Colon Powell would be a better choice than Mr Ketchup.

 

[daveman]

These evil fucking lies about war heros is why you people cant win an election anymore.

facts and truth mean nothing to you

Oh, shut up, you stupid bitch.

 

[francoHFW]

When we want the stupidest opinion possible, we'll ask hater dupe morons...

 

[GoneBezerk]

Very stange Democraps don't bring up Mr Ketchup's wealth when talking about rich people like Bush, Romney, etc......

Oh, Bush and Romney made their money whereas Mr Ketchup had sex with a thing to get his $$$.

 

[Stephanie]

what did Kerry serve over at Vietnam, FOUR MONTHS

but that makes him a WAR HERO

John Kerry served in the United States Navy. He was in Vietnam from November 1968 until March of 1969 for a total of four months and twelve days.

How Long was John Kerry in Vietnam? - Answers.Ask.com

 

[daveman]

So someone that lied about his Vietnam "heroic actions," lied about other Vietnam Vets to Congress and while in Congress accused US troops of war crimes in Iraq.....is up for SECDEF.

This is further proof liberals hate the military by choosing an enemy of the US military to oversee it.

myth and lies.

Kerry never lied. Kerry volunteered to serve. Kerry volunteered for combat. Kerry saved lives.


Kerr never lied about Vietnam Vets.

Well, except for all the times he lied, that is.

You are a spectacularly stupid little man.

 

[daveman]

James Rassmann (born ~1948) is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department lieutenant who served with the U.S. Army's 5th Special Forces Group in the Vietnam War in 1968 and 1969.[1] Now a resident of the U.S. state of Oregon, he has credited U.S. Senator John Kerry with having rescued him from the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969.[1]

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star medal, but the two did not maintain a relationship for the following 30 years. Rassman gained national prominence during the 2004 Presidential election when he publicly denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's campaign against Kerry.

Rassman is now a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy sheriff and an "avid" orchid grower.[1]

If Rassman believes everything that Kerry said about the American military then he has been smoking those orchid's.

Nobody has said that Kerry was not in Vietnam even though it was a short period of time. His heroics are what is in question.

I never met Kerry or Rassman in Vietnam but some vets did even though he was there for such a short period of time and they have every right to speak to his so called valor.

No man has the right to question another man's valor or honor if that man served in combat

Unless he's John Kerry, lying about Vietnam combat veterans.

Oh, yes. He lied. This is absolutely undeniable.