Kerry sent congratulations to Hillary Clinton

[karynnj]

4. Very few people in history come close to Obama

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Assuming that HRC becomes President, her legacy will depend on what she is able to accomplish. She will be note worthy just by being being the first woman President, but long term, that matters only if she is a successful President - which for the world's sake I hope she is.

Biden is likable, but I remember the few months when he was rumored to be considering running for President. He was absolutely trashed in many threads - mostly by supporters of Clinton. Kerry actually has gotten a large amount of praise as SoS. In fact, many posts have argued that he is the most successful SOS in 50 years. (Pretty significant as it has become very very rare that even the Clinton people dispute that.) While Biden has been considered a good VP, there are not a huge number of major things that he is given the main credit for.

I think Gore and Kerry have a huge amount of respect for the work each has done on climate change. Gore did a tremendous job educating people in America and elsewhere. Kerry's careful work over several climate change conferences and in bilateral meetings was essential to the Paris Climate Accord that was designed to insure the US would be able to join it - in spite of the Republicans -- and to include the Chinese and other third world countries.

Nobel Peace Prizes are tricky and depend on what else happened at the same time. However, whether Kerry gets a NPP for his work on the Iran nuclear deal OR his work on climate change, both of those are important milestones.