Posted on 02/06/2014 8:35:43 AM PST by pabianice
JAKE TAPPER, HOST: Thank you so much for agreeing to do this.
JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: Good to be with you.
TAPPER: So you've been secretary of State for a year.
What's been the most surprising thing about the job?
KERRY: I - I think just the sheer intensity of the number of issues coming at us all at one time on a global basis. A lot of transformation, a lot of challenge in the world, a lot of upheaval. And all of it affects our interests, you know...
... TAPPER: There's a lot of talk about two of your colleagues, your predecessor, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Vice President Joe Biden, possibly running for president in 2016.
TAPPER: Is that something you would ever consider doing again?
KERRY: One of - one of the joys of this job is I'm out of politics.
TAPPER: Forever?
KERRY: I'm out of politics. I have no plans whatsoever. This is my last stop. I'm going to serve the country in the extraordinarily privileged position the president has given me, the great challenges that I have and move on. And I don't have to comment and won't comment on anybody contemplating a run for office anywhere...
TAPPER: So let's start with one of them...
TAPPER: The director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said that Bashar al-Assad in Syria has been strengthened since the chemical weapons deal. The United Nations says that Assad's regime is torturing children. He seems to be - Assad seems to be slow-walking the chemical weapons process and those are only the weapons that he's acknowledged he has, not other ones that he might be stockpiling, according to other reports.
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In light of Kerry’s meddling in the name of Middle East Peace, I would suggest him not boasting about tomorrow
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
“He did the mash, the monster mash...”
Never trust a liar. How many times has Hilary said she has no intention of running for president? A lot. Words mean nothing to these people.
Trouble is, Kerry still has time to do major damage to the U.S. once again. He may be planning to “retire” but is he also planning to run for President then?
Probably to become the most annoying talking head since man rose from all fours.
Jimmy Carter hasn’t been president for over 30 years but he still mucks around with foreign policy.
LOL...nice pic. If Kerry retires in 2016, all I have to say is “goodbye dammit”.
Don’t mean to get off track on this thread but what the heck kind of tie is that??? Looks like hieroglyphics - - is he sending a message? I sometimes admire men’s ties (not a fashion expert on them), but I don’t recall ever seeing one like this before. Full disclosure - - I’m not a guy but have bought plenty of them over the years for gifts.
May a bolt of lightening seal his vow.
Let’s go back and see what you did to the remaining GI’s
in Viet Nam who were still there and had to get out, you clown. Some men died because of you and Jane Fonda. Somehow, I don’t think you care.
If it did, is he up for another Purple Heart?
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