John Kerry, on his annual skiing trip to Switzerland, usually drops in on the Economic Summit in Davos so the trip can be on the taxpayers’ ticket. His message this time at Davos:
Kerry Blasts Foreign Policy, Says U.S. Has Become ‘International Pariah’
Saturday , January 27, 2007
DAVOS, Switzerland —
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Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become “a sort of international pariah.”
The statement came as the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee responded to a question about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.
Kerry said the Bush administration has failed to adequately address a number of foreign policy issues.
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.
“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”
Kerry said the government needs to use diplomacy to improve national security.
“We need to do a better job of protecting our interests, because after all, that’s what diplomacy is about,” he said. “But you have to do it in a context of the reality, not your lens but the reality of those other cultures and histories.”
Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”
“Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become “a sort of international pariah.—
That elÃtist, laggard of a gigolo always leaves himself a little wiggle-room, eh?
Not a total and complete “international pariah”, but a “a sort of international pariah”.
What a complete putz. I’ll excerpt what Captian ED had to say about this loser.
Once again, we have the spectre of Kyoto haunting the Bush administration, when it was the Clinton administration that refused to submit the treaty to the Senate—and the Senate that unanimously passed a resolution saying they’d never ratify it. The Byrd-Hagel Resolution in 1997 made it clear that the US would not allow itself to be bound by the treaty as long as it exempted India, China, and other developing nations. That’s the same position as the Bush Administration has taken—and the same position that John Kerry himself took in 1997 when he voted in favor of the Byrd-Hagel Resolution.
That’s yet another example of the hypocrisy of John Kerry—but there’s more.
He took the time to scold the Bush administration for its lack of effort on AIDS and other diseases in Africa. However, Bush has already spent more on these issues than the last Democratic administration did in eight years. Humanitarian aid to Africa comprised $1.4 billion a year at the end of the Clinton administration, but Bush has tripled that to $4 billion per year—and wants to more than double it over the next two years:
So not only is John Kerry a hypocrite, he’s also an ignoramus.
Part of me (2.5892%) actually feels sorry for John Kerry. He’s a man desperately searching for his own relevancy within the political machinary of the current ruling party in Congress.
Shut out & no longer an insider (was he ever, really?), is a man who has sought the Presidency for 40+ years. He even referred to himself as John F. Kerry for about 2 weeks in his ‘04 run (an attempt to link his image to John F. Kennedy). He had 1 shot and blew it. Apart from that, what of any significance, has he achieved in Congress? What resounding legislation has he penned. Who follows him or his lead? Or strives to be like him?
I think Mr. Kerry was told not to bother an ‘08 run by the powers that be and that for that, received his 5 1/2 minutes on the Senate floor this week. He got to say goodbye to his life-long dream, shed a public tear and receive a little lip service from Harry “I LOVE you, John Kerryâ€Reid.
His name is now ‘toast’. And, as such, I toast his departure from political relevancy. John, tell every young person you meet to ‘study hard & learn the art of telling a good joke’...or else they’ll find themselves “stuck†in the Senate and having to stare at a Teresa’s lovely visage every...steenking...night.
he was a do-nothing, faceless politician prior to the ‘04 election.
and so he returns.
his wife won’t have to change her name again.
it’s a shame the people of massachusetts keep reelecting the dope, but it is massachusetts, so what can one expect. the next guy will be just as ridiculous.
He has now joined Jimmy Carter in being one of the worst examples of what passes for American leaders. Like Carter, he is kicking the US down in front of those that wish us harm.
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session
Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM
Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )
Declares that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.
Hopefully Kerry bought a one way ticket to Switzerland. Someone should tell him to get his facts straight before he makes comments that are not very bright.
On another Blog, I had posted...John Kerry is the modern day Benedict Arnold. Another poster reminded me that actually Benedict Arnold really was a war hero before he sold out. The comparison to Kerry insults Arnold.
I, in shooting from the hip, besmirched Benedict Arnold. That’s tough to do....but I damn sure did it.
There is a monument to Benedict Arnold’s leg at Saratoga, where Arnold was a legitimate hero and sustained a serious wound to his left leg. I’m pretty sure that no one will ever erect a monument to any part of John Kerry’s body. To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
There is a monument to Benedict Arnold’s leg at Saratoga, where Arnold was a legitimate hero and sustained a serious wound to his left leg. I’m pretty sure that no one will ever erect a monument to any part of John Kerry’s body. To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
To be fair to Kerry, though, he never engaged in a naked commercial transaction to turn a key military installation over to the enemy in time of war, as Arnold did.
How can you be so certain? The North Vietnamese hold him in fairly high esteem and, while it may not be his leg they’ve memorialized, they do have his likeness in a place of honor.
