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Coddling Kerry: Did mean Israelis hurt his feelings?
New York Post ^ | John Podhoretz

Posted on 07/30/2014 2:51:42 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic

John Kerry fought in Vietnam, threw his medals away, served decades in the Senate, ran for president, did some windsurfing and then became secretary of state of the most powerful country on Earth. He’s a big boy. But there are those who seem to feel otherwise, that Kerry is a fragile and tender reed in need of delicate care — people who work for and with him. Not to mention Kerry himself. Over the course of the past year, on several occasions, Kerry and other staffers have taken to whining — not sure there’s a nicer word — over how unfairly he’s being written and talked about in Israel. In January, after Israel’s defense minister was twice quoted speaking disparagingly about Kerry’s peace-process efforts and his nuclear diplomacy with Iran, Kerry actually called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to complain. This was an odd thing, given the relative power of Kerry and the relatively minor position of Moshe Ya’alon. Kerry could have brushed Yaalon’s words off as a giant brushes off a fly. But it was so hurtful to Kerry that he made sure the world knew about it. His spokesperson, Jen Psaki, said at a public briefing that Ya’alon’s “comments were not constructive.

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To: COBOL2Java

In the immortal words of Danny Aiello in “Moonstruck”: “I don’t like his lips, Loretta. He has no lips.”


21 posted on 07/30/2014 5:50:49 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: right-wing agnostic

If I were Israeli as I’m American, I’d tell Lurch, and Barry, and the whole lot of them to do something that’s physically impossible for anybody who’s not double-jointed.


22 posted on 07/30/2014 5:52:50 PM PDT by RichInOC (KATZ: HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN!! DESTRUCTION ARE ON THE WAY TO YOU. HA HA HA HA....)
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To: Calvin Locke

... and his boat was in for repairs more than any other.

Guess they must have taken a lot of battle damage...

Are you kidding? Have you ever seen the damage RICE can ‘
do? Just ask John, he still carries some in his butt.


23 posted on 07/30/2014 5:53:44 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: right-wing agnostic

Those mean old Israelis ran roughshod over his feelings like a bunch of Genghis Khans.


24 posted on 07/30/2014 6:39:47 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rockpile

God has given America over to the reprobates,

Israel is at war, tensions are running as high as at any time in their history, people are being killed daily, innocent children and the elderly are in harms way and placed there purposely, lives are being upended in permanent and frightening ways, evil is on the move, the entire region is approaching the unthinkable and demonic forces are beginning to swirl about like a cloud of locusts,

And yet for this completely asinine arrogant vain botoxed selfish man, who being nothing more than a kindred servant of that unclean spirit inhabiting the white house, the most important topic for consideration is some self perceived slight against his deceived inept judgement.

Utterly sickening,

Pray that God rebukes this evil,

Pray for peace,


25 posted on 07/30/2014 8:11:01 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: captmar-vell

I REALLY hope that those who think we are approaching end times are incorrect. Things do not look good at present do they?


26 posted on 07/30/2014 10:03:53 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: Rockpile

I do too,

And while I do believe that things are heating up and that time has the appearance at least of coming to the full in some very real sense and very soon, God is in the miracle business, that’s why we should all be on our knees praying,

Nineveh was 40 days from ground zero and look what he did, he gave them another century,

God can use a natural pause in scripture (like he did in Isaiah 61 where he stopped reading before he got to the word ‘vengeance’) and added another 2000 years, he is sovereign and he is in control,


27 posted on 07/31/2014 4:02:56 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Farmer Dean

Exactly. He did throw some medals over the fence for the TV cameras but they weren’t his medals. They were someone else’s.


28 posted on 07/31/2014 4:23:33 AM PDT by Yardstick
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Hillary: Gaza's Small Size Justification For Hamas Housing Rockets In Schools


29 posted on 07/31/2014 9:41:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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