The Crankiness of the Backbench Loser
However noble his public visage, John Kerry was PO’d by the dissing. Boston Herald’s Inside Track:
Word from Capitol Hill is that, despite his kind words for Hillary Clinton yesterday, Sen. John Kerry is angry and disappointed about not being considered a serious candidate for Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
“He’s pretty PO’d,” said Someone Who Knows. “After going from the early front-runner to not even being considered, he’s pretty disappointed.”
Kerry yesterday issued a statement congratulating Clinton on her nomination for the globe-trotting gig.
“President-Elect Obama has chosen a terrific national security team to protect our security and help restore America’s rightful place in the world,” Kerry’s statement read. “As Secretary of State, my friend and colleague Hillary Clinton will bring her years of experience and her remarkable intellect to the effort to restore our alliances and advance the president’s agenda in the world.”
Kerry will, of course, have to settle for the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under the new regime. But, considering his early support for Obama, we hear Kerry was expecting to be moving out of the Senate come January.
“He was out there early for Obama but it didn’t do him much good,” said our spy.
“He’s bored with being a senator,” said another political source.
The conventional wisdom is that the president-elect chose Clinton over Kerry because of her star power - and to keep an eye on her and her hubby in a sort of “keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer” scenario.
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As for Hillary, we hear that one of the reasons she decided to abandon the Senate to serve under her former rival was Sen. Ted Kennedy’s snub on health care.
Kennedy declined to put the former first lady on his health care task force - the group that will shape the Senate’s health care bill.
Word is, the senior senator, who is battling brain cancer, hopes to get the bill through the Senate as soon as work is completed on Obama’s economic plan, and he didn’t believe Clinton had the juice to get it done.
File Under: Political State-ment.
You know, I’m getting a real Democratic Congress feel off of all of that. Raise your hand if you think that crowd is going to be able to accomplish anything. But back to Kerry. No “Why the long face?” jokes, please. OK, maybe a couple, if you have to.
It remains to be seen whether Obama has done himself or the nation any favors by nominating Hillary to State, but indisputably he has done himself, the nation and the world a tremendous favor by not naming Kerry. A career do-nothing and quitter who is now bored. Sheesh, that only took 24 years.
It’s like I say to the kids. If you’re bored, think of something to do. Call a friend. Arrange something. You can’t just sit around watching TV and playing video games all day.
Well, it isn’t my fault. I guess my vote for against John Kerry last month was a vote for John Kerry after all … to spare him the boredom.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:56 am on Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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December 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
[...] looks as if also-ran Kerry will have to be content continuing his inconsequential tenure in the Senate, forever laboring obscurely under the shadow of his more esteemed colleague, Ted [...]
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
“…he has done himself, the nation and the world a tremendous favor by not naming Kerry.”
Too true. OTOH, Team Obama has the potential to be one long running back stabbing operation. So we shall see.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
Never, ever, everrrrrr thought I’d be grateful for a Hillary Clinton appointment to anything. But, here I am…Grateful as all Hell ! Just think of it: She’s OUT of the Senate ! And the numbingly boring, pathetic, wretched Kerry stays and replaces the clumsy Doofus Biden with his own dim, pompous lights as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. This gets better by-the-day.
So far, the utterly opaque Messiah is showing a coldly pragmatic side that is really fascinating. From a President of deep, steadfast core values to a President of no revealed core values other than love of family…His mere absence of loyalty to alleged friends is working in favor of his country. Billy Ayers…Jeremiah Wright…other Chicago Pols who helped him up…Kerry…Goodness, who’s next..?
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Watching the antics in the Obama administration for the next four years is going to be better than color TV.
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
RACIST!!!!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
“He’s bored with being a senator,” said another political source.
Maybe he could quit and get a job as a greeter at a Wal*Mart
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 am
Once Obama got ahold of Kerry’s mailing list, it was under the bus for Long Face. Hill/Billy were infinitely savvier, of course, Bill’s donor list cost Obama the State Dept (where Hillary can build a fresh new international donor list to replace the one she & Bill had probably tapped out already).