hey, john-boy, stand over here, a little more to the left, stop! now weight right there... 
Posted on 09/01/2013 12:10:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry: I wasn't undercut by move to consult Congress on Syria By Ben Geman - 09/01/13 01:17 PM ET
Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rejected suggestions his strong advocacy for punishing Syria’s regime for using chemical weapons was undercut by President Obama's surprise decision to first seek congressional approval.
Kerry’s Sunday appearances on five news shows found the secretary of state repeatedly challenging the very premise of questions from hosts who say his advocacy for quick action was laid aside by the White House.
“Wrong,” Kerry bluntly told CBS’s Major Garrett when asked whether Kerry was “disappointed” that his call for swift action was “overridden.”
“I did not advocate that the response had to be swift. In fact, I often said that we needed to take time to do certain things,” said Kerry.
After "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace said Kerry had made a "powerful call" on Friday for "quick action," Kerry retorted: "Chris, I made a powerful call for action. I never mentioned the word quick. I made the case for why we needed to take action."
On Sunday, Kerry repeatedly praised Obama's decision to seek congressional approval.
He said on the shows that it would provide a stronger, more unified national response and enable more time to coordinate with allies, among other benefits.
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked if Kerry had any idea, during his Friday presentation, that Obama was going to “hit the pause button.”
“Well, the president hadn't made any decision on the military strike, George," Kerry responded. "I was asked to make the case for why we needed to take action, but the president always maintained the prerogative as to when or what he decided to do."
Over at NBC, Kerry pushed back when "Meet The Press" host David Gregory asked if he felt “undermined” personally and whether U.S. credibility had taken a hit when Obama delayed what had appeared to be an imminent strike.
Gregory also said that NBC’s reporting showed that Kerry and other members of Obama’s security team were opposed to going to Congress.
"David, I completely disagree with the fundamental premise that you set out," Kerry said.
"No, I did not oppose going, nor did anybody else that I know of originally. The issue originally was, ‘Should the President of the United States take action in order to enforce the credibility and the interest of our country and to deter Assad from using these weapons and to degrade his capacity to do so?,’ ” Kerry said, according to an NBC transcript.
“That was the issue. And that's the issue that we debated. There was no decision not to do that."
Some critics of Obama's handling of the Syria situation expressed empathy for Kerry.
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who accused Obama of abdicating responsibility by requesting congressional approval of a strike against Syria, told Fox's Wallace: "First I felt bad for Sen. Kerry having to defend the indefensible"
hey, john-boy, stand over here, a little more to the left, stop! now weight right there...
I saw Kerry on Fox this morning.
It could be my imagination, but it looked like he was simmering inside to be doing clean up for O’s decision.
If Wallace asked a question (which he was hard pressed to do) he got agitated.
I have a friend whose face looks like that right before he blows a gasket.
Kerry is so predictable..
BTTT!
He’s so brave....I believe he was in Vietnam?
got some rice shrapnel in his face....er....butt.
whatta a POS.
I hear ya.. If the Epa had been around in Tea party times, he’d a been the commanding officer issuing citations for dispoiling the bay.. or a race horse,, what a long face..
Kerry would not know “undercut” it is hit him in the a$$. He has never been willing to admit that he undercut our troops in Vietnam after claiming that he won those medals that he said he threw over the White House fence, but later fessd up and admitted that those weren’t his real medals. It is difficult to part with medals that you lied so hard to get.
LOL He got sandbagged.
He tries so hard to think that Obama gives a damn about him. He is nothing to Obama except another Honkey idiot he is using.
He had a chin-chop, and it looks like hell. A botched job.
Admit it horseface . . . your boss man made you look like an incompetent, nattering stooge. Man that John F’n Kerry is really on top of things . . . right hand man of Zero on foreign policy. In like Flynt. Knows when he is phoning from the bathroom.
When EVERY decision is based on politics and not sound doctrine and strategy, sometimes you end up looking like a complete idiot. I really enjoyed the laugh, boys.
These people make buzzard puke look good. . . .
you mean Jen-jis khan
I used to think he was trying to sound classy pronouncing it that way- now I think he was just too stupid to know what he was reading (someone else wrote it for him)
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