[abb]

What difference does it make?

[Timber Rattler]

Kerry’s staff yesterday insisted he’s fully engaged and has been logging long hours and high miles, including a recent 12-day, 25,000-mile trip to the Middle East and Asia.

So he spends two weeks flying around the globe and grandstanding for with discernible purpose, but when a real crisis breaks out, he dials it in and then sneaks off for his vacation on his yacht?

Nice.

[0.E.O]

“It doesn’t look good, and I think it sends the wrong message” said Republican strategist Brad Marston. “If I were advising him, I’d already have him on a plane.”

To do what?

[nuconvert]

Please, keep him as far away as possible.

[Postman]

Precisely. The Rats have turned the job into a showcase for their understudy turds such as Shrillery.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Haven’t the Egyptians suffered enough?

[Jim Noble]

This is what one of the things that bothers me about the GOP.

They do not articulate (probably because they have no idea) why we should care about the latest Arab mob doing what Arab mobs do. They presume most Americans care about Egypt, when they clearly do not. They attack John Eff'in Kerry for going on vacation (his life is a vacation) with no concept of what he should do instead.

When the reboot comes and both current parties are destroyed, it will be in no small part because of pointless political sniping like this.

[BitWielder1]

"Dang, I have to work too? On a holiday? I got this post so I could tell OTHERS what to do."

What he should do is to make sure American personnel are out of harms way or adequately protected.
Any other action, like grandstanding or opening his mouth in public on any subject, is likely to make matters worse.

[don-o]

The American people don’t need to worry about that.”

There we have it - the BIG LIE that the left has successfully messaged beginning with the New Deal.

We got this - nothing to see here - move along.

[Jim Noble]

that on our Independence Day we are very concerned about the freedom and democracy that we hope is instilled for some period of time in the Arab World,” said Patrick Griffin, a New Hampshire-based GOP strategist.

What an idiot.

First of all, "freedom" is the worst possible thing to be granted an uncivilized, cult-following, sullen and hostile population. The less free the Arabs are, the better off the world is.

Second of all, "democracy" is a terrible evil, as our Founders well understood. Look at how far the US has fallen since universal suffrage was achieved between 1919 and 1965.

We should be minding our own business. If Arabia is in revolt with mobs killing each other, well?

[stevem]

Kerry knows it’s just a seasonal thing. We are now in Arab Summer.

[Future Snake Eater]

After the crap we had to listen to about Bush being at his Crawford ranch, we’re supposed to just roll over and accept this crap?

I don’t think so.

[dan on the right]

What is going on in Egypt is great for all of us.

You have a fairly sophisticated group of people forcefully rejecting the muslim brotherhood's influence on their new government. Best thing that has happened in the region in 2 years.

We should be fully behind this; take the opportunity to push for secular leadership and hope the anger spreads throughout northern Africa and the Middle East.

But, I'm sure, Kerry is tired from trying to negotiate a settlement between the Israel hating Palestinians and the best friends we have in the region, Israel. No one cares! Get the middle east to move more secular and less Islamic and things will cool down. Egypt is the perfect example. Seize on it!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Beat me to it...

[Flintlock]

But..........
Kerry ain’t STUPID...........
He remembers 9/11................

[duckman]

Those ‘cwazy’ libs.

[SC_Pete]

Better to keep that jackass away.

[Errant]

[csmusaret]

He is just biding his time while Obama decides what American policy should be...Or make that Valerie Jarrett.

[PLD]

No problem John has done his job time for a vacation..His job was to give money away and that is what he did.. $250 Million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/world/middleeast/kerry-announces-millions-in-us-aid-for-egypt.html?_r=0

In a statement issued after his two-hour meeting with President Mohamed Morsi, Mr. Kerry said the aid decision reflected Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Mr. Morsi’s assurance that Egypt would reach an agreement with the I.M.F. after more than a year of talks over a $4.8 billion loan package.

[Hoodat]

Worst Secretary of State ever.