John Kerry
In reply to the discussion: Do any of my fellow long term JK supporters buy into the -Kerry =Brown theory? [View all]MBS
(9,688 posts)She started tonight's (Thursday Nov 29) with a detailed account of the bizarre and scary Internet blackout and airport shutdown in Syria, then briefly summarized the other significant world events in the last 24 hours: Afghanistan vote in Senate, UN vote on Palestine, Egyptian president taking on dictatorial powers, government punishment of Buddhist protestors in Burma, and more. then she noted that the SOS has the second hardest civilian job in US besides the president. As she emphasized, that's just in one 24-hour period.
THEN she said some thing to the effect that she would have hoped that our democracy had a process to pick the SOS that was as substantive (and free from triviality) as the job of SOS itself. As substantive and serious, in fact, as the job deserves. Rachel was right: the disconnect between the importance of the job and the utter stupidity of this blather is jaw-dropping .
Rachel's emphasis was on the hypocrisy of Ayotte, McCain and Collinn, but for memit's broader than that.
I am fed up with all aspects of this nonsense, and with all the players -- Dems and Repubs--who have made this fester into a ridiculous political controversy where there needn't have been one ( or at least it needn't have been this loud, this chaotic, this juvenile or this stupid). I am SOOOOOO glad that Sen. Kerry is keeping his distance from this stupidity , and that he's refusing to comment.