Ah, so Kerry WAS Obama's first choice for Secretary of State

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41. I always felt he was the first choice. And, the end game is he will do the better job.

But, after awhile I would get tired of everyone reporting that I was nominated after Rice withdrew-especially if I knew it wasn't true. Frankly, I could never understand why the President would think so little of this post to appoint someone who had less experience and had the wrong temperment for the post simply because she was a friend or was of a certain race. I suspect that you have felt all along that Rice should have been given this position-and that is fine, it is your opinion and you are entitled to it. But, you do need to understand that Kerry's stepping back problably had more to do with having to possible work along side of her and not to start a flurry of criticism from various minority groups. Racism is still a problem in our country, and it angers me, but I get just as angry when some people and some groups see racism where it doesn't exist and expect that such things as experience, knowledge and temperment should be overlooked to appoint members of a certain race or sex, because they think this will rectify the wrongs committed in the past.