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Category: John Kerry

  • John Kerry; chemical attack by Assad regime “undeniable”

    According to Fox News, our new secretary of state, John Kerry declared to the media today that the evidence of a chemical attack in Syria is “undeniable” and some rather nebulous words about “real” and “compelling” whatever the Hell that means;

    The secretary of State addressed the allegations from State Department headquarters. He pointed a finger squarely at the Assad regime, sharply questioning any suggestion that the weapons could have been deployed by the opposition, or that the attack could have been staged. He called the strike a “moral obscenity” and accused the Syrian government of trying to destroy the evidence.

    Shortly afterward, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney echoed the remarks, saying the evidence of an attack is “undeniable” and there’s “very little doubt” that the Assad government was behind it. Carney said it is now “profoundly” in the interest of the U.S. and international community to respond.

    I’m just saying that this “real and compelling” doesn’t answer any of my questions and it feels like we’re being told we’re going to war instead of being convinced that we need to go to war. While I agree that the use of chemical weapons is egregious and should be responded to by the community of civilized nations, I’m not sure that anything we do militarily would be effective in that regard. The two sides are pointing fingers at each other as the perpetrators, and the rebels would have the most to gain by a Western intervention at this point. Snipers shot at the UN weapons team today, that doesn’t sound like something the government would do.

    I think we’re being set up and the incompetent boobs who have been rushing for the exits in Afghanistan for the last four years are now running for the entrance in Syria. Like I said earlier today, it all feels like the Johnson Administration’s Gulf of Tonkin Incident as an excuse to put combat troops into Vietnam.

    And Kerry is talking in Joe Biden words, like he understands something that he really doesn’t. I think they’re just doing the opposite of what they did in Libya hoping that works.

  • Obama snubs Putin over Snowden

    Chief Tango and Ex-PH2 send us links to the news that Obama plans to skip his one-on-one meeting with Vlad the Putin ahead of the G20 meeting next month.

    Authorities in Moscow last week granted temporary asylum to Snowden, who is wanted by U.S. authorities for leaking classified intelligence information to newspapers.

    That decision infuriated Washington. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called on the U.S. “to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin’s Russia.”

    In a statement Wednesday, the White House noted cooperation in some areas, such as policies toward Afghanistan and Iran, but said Moscow’s decision to help Snowden was “disappointing.”

    I thought about this real hard, but I decided that whether Obama went to the meeting or skipped it, I was going to call him a “pussy” so he really couldn’t win either way. I think that’s the way most of the Right saw this – a “no-win” for Obama. But mostly only because his foreign policy team headed by John Kerry couldn’t convince Putin to turn over Eddie Snowden. So yeah, I really blame Kerry, but Obama gets the “pussy” label because he picked that buffoon Kerry as his Secretary of State, probably just to make Hillary Clinton look good.

    So instead of going to Moscow, Obama will go to Stockholm, because I guess Sweden hasn’t done anything to embarrass this administration yet. From the Washington Post (Amazon Post?);

    “Sweden is a close friend and partner to the United States,” Carney said in a statement. “Sweden plays a key leadership role on the international stage, including in opening new trade and investment opportunities through the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, advancing clean technologies, and promoting environmental sustainability.”

    Besides, there are more Muslims in Sweden, anyway, it’ll feel more like home to the President. I’m sure John Kerry can piss them off before he gets there without even half-trying.

  • Policy on auto-pilot

    You may have heard in the last few days about our Secretary of State, John Kerry, who decided to take a cruise on his yacht while Egypt burned. Of course, as we’ve seen from the State Department on most issues, they denied that was the case initially, even when confronted with photographic evidence of the contrary. Finally, the State Department admitted that their boss was on a float while the Army tossed out the elected head of Egypt’s government.

    Today, Israeli media are complaining about Kerry’s focus on negotiation between Israel and the Palestinians, an impossible quest, while other issues, like Egypt and Syria, demand his attention;

    Ynet News’ Hagai Segal’s angle: Why is Mr. Kerry trying to hard to facilitate a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, when Egypt and Syria are in utter chaos?

    Even The New York Times wonders this question, Ynet said. And his work to bring about this deal is only “placing American foreign policy in a ridiculous light,” the Israeli paper opined.

    “The U.S. cannot make peace between Arabs and other Arabs, yet it believes it can make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. … Is it possible that John Kerry is more talented than all the American mediators who came before him? Not at all.”

    Or maybe working on Syria and Egypt is too hard for the silver spoon Secretary of State. It might even involve staying in a a three or four star hotel. Of course, our foreign policy isn’t the only thing on cruise control, The Hill noticed that Democrats in the Capital are complaining about a lack of leadership from the White House;

    Supporters and critics of President Obama are looking for leadership on many pressing issues from the White House, but many believe they are not getting it.

    On Monday, Obama held a Cabinet meeting and spoke about his effort to modernize government databases.

    He avoided public remarks on several matters seen as more pressing, such as turmoil in Egypt and the wider Middle East, faltering efforts to reform immigration in the U.S. and the rocky implementation of ObamaCare. Instead the president spoke to a small group of reporters about his efforts to improve databases and make government more efficient.

    “We’re working to make huge swaths of your government more transparent and more accountable than ever before,” Obama said at the White House.

    Well, if you guys were looking for leadership, you should have run someone else in 2008, I’ve been saying since then that Obama isn’t a leader, he’s a community organizer. A leader tells you what’s best for you and then convinces you that what he’s doing is right. A community organizer does stuff that makes the people around him smile, whether it’s the right or wrong thing to do. A leader takes on the toughest issues first, a community organizer does the easy things first so people smile at him.

    Does Obama have some grand plan to make the world right again? Maybe, but he’s not telling us about it, like a leader would. All we get from the White House is lies and obfuscation.

  • John Kerry and the promises he can’t keep

    I guess the Obama Administration is finding their new Secretary of State a bit problematic, since he’s been jetting around the world making promises that the Obama Administration isn’t willing to keep, says CBS News;

    Since succeeding Hillary Rodham Clinton as America’s top diplomat, Kerry has issued several as yet undelivered — and perhaps undeliverable — pledges to allies and rivals alike, proving a source of concern for Obama’s policy team. It is trying to rein in Kerry somewhat, according to officials, which is difficult considering Kerry has spent almost half his tenure so far in the air or on the road, from where his most dissonant policy statements have come.

    The White House quickly distanced itself from both Kerry’s North Korea remarks and has now, since President Barack Obama’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Northern Ireland this past week, seen up close the strength of Moscow’s resistance to Kerry’s Syria strategy.

    So, who is surprised? Certainly not me. John Kerry has been making promises since he went to Paris to talk to the North Vietnamese while he was still a commissioned officer in the Navy Reserve and tried to negotiate with the enemy to release prisoners of war – making promises he couldn’t keep. He’s not new at this.

  • Samira Ibrahim; award down the memory hole

    ROS sent us a link today in regards to the First Lady and john Kerry rewarding anti-Semite and anti-American Samira Ibrahim with an “International Women of Courage Award” along with nine others. Well apparently Ibrahim is famous for this quote on Twitter; “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.” I guess she felt bad about the Tweet because she deleted it, but not before someone screen shot the thing.

    Well, after the news about her hateful Tweets hit the internet, she told the world that her Twitter account had been hacked;

    The honoree, Samira Ibrahim, asserts that her Twitter account was hacked even though the tweets in question appeared over a period of months and were never deleted.

    Can anyone be stupid enough to buy that excuse?

    According to State Department reporter Nicole Gaouette, the answer to that question is “Yes.”

    Yes, really. “State officials tell me they’ve looked at 1000s of her tweets & believe her account was hacked,” she tweeted.

    I guess being hacked is now the last refuge of scoundrels.

    Anyway, I guess the White House had second thought about the award, perhaps she wasn’t quite as courageous as folks thought. But, according to Twitchy, her name has been removed from the list of honorees.

    It’s too bad that the staff at the State Department can’t do their own research on their awardees and have to rely on a bunch of bloggers to vet their awards system for them.

  • The right to be stupid

    ROS sends us a video of John Kerry, in which he tries to explain how he is the living embodiment of his philosophy – that Americans are free to be as stupid as they want to be – take him for example;


    From Reuters;

    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered a defence of freedom of speech, religion and thought in the United States on Tuesday telling German students that in America “you have a right to be stupid if you want to be.”

    Stupid enough to create a new country among some other stuff perhaps?

    John Kerry made his first flub as US Secretary of State when he created the new Middle Eastern nation of “Kyrzakhstan.”

    Kerry meant to say Kyrgystan, a nation of 5.5 million people, but instead appeared to merge the key US ally with Kazakhstan.

    […]

    Along with his first flub as Secretary of State, John Kerry has also created a new Major League Baseball icon (Manny Ortiz) and gave the Green Bay Packers a new home (Lambert Field).

    You know, education — if you make the most of it — you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in the State Department.

    Halp us Jon Cary

  • Kerry defends foreign aid

    Yeah, wipe that shocked look off your face. John Kerry, an especially bad Senator and presidential candidate demonstrates that particular trait will carry over to the State Department. Yesterday he defended the amount that the government spends on foreign aid. From the Washington Post;

    Politicians too easily make a bogeyman of American foreign aid, said Kerry, who was a politician for more than three decades, while the payoffs of engagement abroad are badly misjudged by many ordinary Americans, he said.

    “I can tell you that nothing gets a crowd clapping faster than to say, ‘I’m going to Washington to get them to stop spending all that money over there,’?” he said.

    In truth, the foreign aid budget, as well as the entire State Department budget, is a pittance, Kerry said, just about a penny on the total U.S. federal budget dollar.

    The State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development budget request for 2012 was $51.6 billion. Although Kerry did not make the direct comparison, the Pentagon spent an estimated $115 billion on the Afghanistan war in the same year.

    Yeah, I wouldn’t make the comparison either, if the facts directly contradict my point as they do in this case. Us “ordinary Americans” don’t see the point of propping up failed states and folks who will someday kill Americans, or at least celebrate the deaths of Americans as we’ve seen in recent years. They’re going to hate us anyway, so why pay them to hate us, while we could probably get the same result for free? At least then they’d have a reason to hate us.

    “Deploying diplomats today is much cheaper than deploying troops tomorrow,” Kerry said to applause.

    Yeah, well, as we saw in Benghazi, we have to deploy troops along with the diplomats, so what’s your point?

  • I’m So Thrilled I Just HAD to Share

    Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.

    Someone mentioned this in a comment below….But I had to verify.

    The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed President Barack Obama‘s choice of five-term Sen. John Kerry to be secretary of state, with Republicans and Democrats praising him as the ideal successor to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

    Of course I feel betrayed… but, sadly, not surprised.

    I just broke my alcohol fast. Queries about my blood sugar and/or rage can be addressed to: Nothing much matters on FB.