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The Spectacle Blog
Should President Obama appoint John Kerry as Secretary of Defense he would be anointing a man who first came to national prominence by accusing his fellow soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam.
He would also be appointing the man who said back in 2006, “You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
Kerry, of course, said his remark was “a botched joke.”
If Obama names Kerry Secretary of Defense that would surely be a botched joke.
Next thing you know Obama will consider appointing Susan “Spontaneous Protest” Rice as Secretary of State. Oh wait, he is.
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PJ| 11.13.12 @ 10:31PM
Given the present state of this administration, does it really matter?
BD57| 11.13.12 @ 10:48PM
Would quoting Kerry's Winter Soldier testimony back at him have any effect whatsoever?
Are there 41 Republican Senators willing to say "No" to a member of the "club"?
Nancy in NC| 11.14.12 @ 7:18AM
If that would include one of your senators, I advise starting to write now...and often.
BD57| 11.14.12 @ 8:10AM
Nelson & Rubio .... Rubio is worth writing, Nelson ... waste of stamps / electrons / whatever.
Mike W| 11.13.12 @ 11:41PM
I don't get the American Spectator. We have the proverbial Sword of Damocles hanging over our head with Republican capitulation on amnesty and we are bleating about Benghazi, Petraus and Kerry for Sec Def.
Not one post have I seen on the impending doom that our fellow Republicans and talking dummies -Sean Hannity,are pushing.
BD57| 11.14.12 @ 8:11AM
While I agree the financial issues are primary, they aren't the only issues - IF we somehow manage to solve the financial issue, we're still going to need to be able to defend the country.
Stan Redmond| 11.14.12 @ 1:33PM
Pick the target, freeze it and polarize it! - Saul Alinsky
Benghazi and Patreas are one massive mess that can be effective in taking out this regime. Or at least running out the 4 years we have until this traiterous administration is gone. You will have a hard time convincing Obamaphone people and Obamatons the merits of fiscal responsibility.
Ted R.| 11.14.12 @ 12:24AM
Oh yeah, maybe your worry is with appointing ANOTHER incompetent Sec. of State. of State Rice.
Except Susan did not blow hard LIES about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which led to an utterly misbegotten invasion and the UNNECESSARY DEATHS of THOUSANDS of our men and women.
Sec. of Defense Kerry is at least some poetic justice for your Swift-Boat LIES about his record in 2004.
2012 actually really is your great comeuppance for 2004. Maybe there is a God...
Nancy in NC| 11.14.12 @ 7:17AM
Perhaps you can explain why all those Dimwits in Congress agreed, as well as that turncoat Colin Powell.
Is that all you've got? Justifying bad behavior by comparing it to someone else's assumed behavior is childish and lame.
I find plenty of fault with Bush. But compared to the moron currently in the WH, he was a saint. (For more details, read Hillyer's piece of today.)
BD57| 11.14.12 @ 8:13AM
Quoting "Gengis Kahn" is "lying?" As opposed to throwing someone else's medals over the fence & claiming they were your own?
Please - give us chapter & verse of how the Swifties lied about Kerry.
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 11:16AM
Actually what Susan Rice said is a lie, what Condoleeza Rice said might not have been. She may have been convinced of the evidence and in any case the Iraqi invasion did not depend on there being WMDs so much as their ability to acquire, transport and distribute them. Remember there were 16 outstanding UNSC resolutions - Chapter 7 resolutions - all authorizing the use of force to make Saddam comply with the terms of the NPT.
Swift boat lies, LOL! Four purple hearts for a soldier with ten fingers and ten toes. Show me a missing toe and I'll believe the swift boat veterans were lying.
Stan Redmond| 11.14.12 @ 1:35PM
I think he got those for "Horse Face Syndrome"
Bob Grant| 11.14.12 @ 12:59PM
Ted R's and Democrats Credo:
Revenge first, Country second!
Tim.W| 11.14.12 @ 12:29AM
They are all interchangeably incompetent, stupid, and corrupt.
Personally I would like to see every single conservative stop enlisting and stop serving when there term is up.
Same for the junior officers.
It would be hysterical watching Obama institute the draft, his base would go nuts.
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 11:17AM
"They are all interchangeably incompetent, stupid, and corrupt."
They are not.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.12 @ 11:59AM
@Tim: a minor correction: Charlie Rangel is calling for the draft. The Liberals actually SUPPORT a draft, despite the fact that our Volunteer armed forces are the best in the world.
Remember: if Obama does it, it is right. These Libtards don't think.
Al Adab| 11.14.12 @ 1:47PM
Of course O/T:
Kerry is the perfect appointment. He is a rebel and a traitor and so would be the perfect nomination to head up our no longer military Defense Dept. Remember the only enemies of world peace are American soldiers, sailors and airmen. Susan Rice to State, Mrs. Clinton to Supreme Court, etc., etc., etc.
RJ| 11.14.12 @ 3:28AM
It sickens me that a man who slandered Vietnam Veterans is serving in the US Senate, let alone is being considered for Secretary of Defense. A President who would do such a thing is ..... If the rumor is correct, Obama, true to form, will be even more divisive and demeaning in his second term.
Why not go all the way and nominate Jane Fonda as Secretary of Defense?
Occam's Tool| 11.14.12 @ 12:00PM
@RJ: no. She's the nominee for NSA. :-)
junodog| 11.16.12 @ 4:06PM
Surely there's an honorary consul position open for Jane in the Tampa area.
spike59| 11.14.12 @ 5:38AM
John Kerry as DefSec makes as much sense as naming a former governor who basically ran her state's border with Mexico as an illegal alien superhighway to be the Director of Homeland Security...so he'll probably do it
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 11:18AM
Amen, Spike. But Obama is the Manchurian Candidate, endorsed twice by the Communist Party USA. I'd be surprised if Kerry wasn't chosen!
Nancy in NC| 11.14.12 @ 7:11AM
Perhaps Sandra Fluke will be the new secretary of HHS.
junodog| 11.16.12 @ 4:10PM
No, Sandra is being held out so she can become head of the soon to be created cabinet Department of Contraception and Abortion (Catholics need not apply). OK, they may call it, euphemistically, the Department of Women's Health. Good thing this site isn't widely read among leftists. One feminazi picking up on the idea and bringing it to the attention of the media would insure it's creation. How could any leftist say no?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.14.12 @ 7:28AM
...that would be like creating a position for School Safety Czar, and filling it with somebody who, when working as a teacher, approved of and enabled an underage student having sex with an older adult male in bus station restrooms...
CJW| 11.14.12 @ 8:10AM
Jean Kerry could not be worse than Hillary. Jean called American soldiers murderers, Genghis Khan types, supposedly threw away his medals, asked for reassignment after a minor injury, brought to Vietnam a film crew to film him, and came back to the USA to defame the US military.
He fits in perfectly with the Obama types such as RevWright, Billy Ayers, Bubba, and others.
Maxwell| 11.14.12 @ 9:46AM
Correct me if I am wrong, didn't Kerry say he was going to release all of his .MIL paperwork to back up his claims? How many years ago was that?
SCPOret| 11.14.12 @ 9:48AM
Kerry is an A$$hole of the first order. Allpied for medals he didn't earn so he could escape his duty in VN. The talked trash on people who served honorably. Disparaged servicemen and women at every opportunity and then tried to claim his service as a selling point when he ran for President. The people rejected this lying scumbag then, and the people should rise up and write/call/e-mail their senators to reject this lying scumbag opportunist now.
USN 1961-1988 retired
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.14.12 @ 10:46AM
...and don't forget that his forays into Cambodia are seared, seared on his memory, except no one else in his boat or the Navy (or who wasn't watching PBR Streetgang in "Apocalypse Now") remembers it.
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 11:22AM
It was largely due to the man whose greatest career advances besides betrayal was to marry money twice that poor kids who were drafted to serve in a questionable war came home to people spitting in their faces and being called baby killer (and then trotting off to the abortionist) that is so enraging by even the suggestion that he head up the Pentagon. Beyond belief!
OregonBuzz| 11.14.12 @ 9:54AM
Making Kerry the Secretary of Defense is like putting the neighborhood sissy in charge of dealing with the neighborhood bully. At least we'll be getting rid of the Communist. Or would we?
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 7:16PM
The 2 Manchurian candidates united at last! God help America!
Whig| 11.14.12 @ 10:01AM
Don't filibuster but bring up every damn Winter's Soldier lie by Kerry and his comments on veterans.
Oh, and Senate Repubs should bring up returning our troops home as this Benghazi mess and Kerry's appt. would render them sacrificial lambs in foreign places. As a bonus, at least their votes would count in U.S. elections for a change.
Abu Nudnik| 11.14.12 @ 11:10AM
Atomic weggie from the boys @ Pentagon would show the love on day one.
JP| 11.14.12 @ 11:36AM
I think Obama should appoint him. And the GOP Senators should filibuster the appointment until Kerry turns over his military records as he promised he would back in 2004.
Kerry at State would be no better than Biden. Both are buffoons who managed to get reputations as foreign policy experts. They are both terminally insane.
Occam's Tool| 11.14.12 @ 4:00PM
Here's how to do Defense (on Twitter):
"IDF
✔@IDFSpokesperson We recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces above ground in the days ahead."
Jack in Wi., stay safe, pal!
C Bowen | 11.14.12 @ 4:40PM
Kerry was also a leader in the Senate for making war with Iraq because it was scary.
The Neocons loved him back then.
Kerry, like the globalist neocons, are just shape shifters.
bopberrigan| 11.15.12 @ 11:06AM
Hell yes, appoint Kerry and Rice as SecDev and SecState. They'll provide competition for Madeline Albright and Hillary as being the worst cabinet secretaries in American history.
Kevin Gutzman | 11.15.12 @ 12:49PM
There is no statute of limitations on war crimes. If Sen. Kerry is nominated, he should be pressed at his confirmation hearings to name names. That would be interesting.
Marc Jeric| 11.15.12 @ 2:35PM
What a gallery of rogues! Hillary Clinton, the wife of that impeached disbarred felon Bill; the phony self-proclaimed war hero Kerry; Mullah Obama, our marxist Muslim President from Kenya; Susan Rice, a liar par excellence; Paneta, formerly a chief at the KGB-directed Institute for Plocy Studies working on unilateral disarmament; Holder, our racist-communist AG protected by executice privilege from the Fast & Furious murder coverup; etc., etc.
junodog| 11.16.12 @ 4:03PM
Kerry is a despicable blowhard and self-promoter. He might be an ideal candidate for Secretary of State. At least he could make use of his French.