Johnny Isakson: John Kerry ‘a good nominee’
The United States Senate likes to confirm its own, and Georgia Republican U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson’s reaction to the news that Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry would be tapped for the gig of Secretary of State showed that Kerry likely will have an easy ride. Video above, here’s a key quote:
Well, John Kerry is very qualified. I have had the occasion to work with him on the Foreign Relations Committee now for four years. He’s been very active and engaged in international diplomacy, in particular the comprehensive peace agreement in the Sudan, which was successfully concluded last year. I think he would be a good nominee for the president. … I’m sure there will be questions and analysis of his career, but I think he will be confirmed.
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you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
10:37 am
Kerry: 3 purple hearts
Aesop: owner of a lonely heart
MiltonMan
December 22nd, 2012
10:40 am
Hopefully, they found the medals that he tossed – nevermind they are on hid office wall.
Rafe Hollister
December 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
YDS
Not that it makes any difference, in America we all are allowed to have an opinion, I put in 25 yrs with the DOD.
Yes, we elect our representatives democratically, but we are a country ruled by laws, not by the mob or the plurality.
Yes, elections have consequences; elect a light weight like Obama, you get appointments like Kerry. A rich man so small, that he betrayed his big government liberalism speech, with his real world cheapskate nature, by trying to anchor his big yacht, in a state other than his home state of MA, just to avoid a few dollars in taxes. John Kerry is a tax cheat, like Tim Geithner and Tom Daschle. Dems always want to raise taxes, because they know they are not going to actually pay any, that is for the other folks.
If you preach it, you need to live it, or shut up.
zeke
December 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
Another liberal useless blame the USA democrat! Please Senators have a little integrity and vote NO on this anti USA liberal!
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
10:46 am
Rafe
You talk big behind a keyboard….
Telling others to shut as a mechanism to make people think you are something….
As I said, get used to it, son
You cry about Kerry, but voted for 3 deferment Romney?
Thanks for the laughs, clown
Rafe Hollister
December 22nd, 2012
11:02 am
yds
Add John Heinz Kerry to an ineffective and uninspiring foreign policy of the Obama regime, and what have you got. More of the same. You get the government you choose.
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
11:02 am
Rafe
When you can show me that Republicans don’t increase taxes,ever vote for increases, increase fees as they do in GA to say they don’t increase taxes, never author tax increase(see Bob Dole) then you have a point….
Outside of that, the theory they sold you worked like a charm…
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
11:04 am
Rafe
Let me guess, sadly you chose Bush
Yes it was a blast
Real Athens
December 22nd, 2012
11:19 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJZMvM2Jac
double
December 22nd, 2012
11:21 am
Reckon Kerry has all his money stashed out of USA? I don’t hear Romney mentioned much anymore.
Jon Lester
December 22nd, 2012
11:22 am
John McCain would have served us better if he’d stayed out of Congress after his repatriation.
Someone needs to (but won’t, because it’s the Senate) press Kerry on his vote for the Graham-Sheehan resolution of August 2011, in which the Senate unanimously disregarded the pertinent facts of the Abkhazia and South Ossetia conflicts and called on Russian troops to withdraw from those regions for the purpose of FSR Georgia’s “territorial integrity.” Kerry should be asked if he, too, voted in ignorance, or if he knew better but voted yes anyway. Neither answer would be particularly assuring for any candidate for Secretary of State, given how much diplomatic double-dealing we’ve been (often correctly) accused of over the years.
clem
December 22nd, 2012
11:34 am
aesop probably went awol
Weetamoe
December 22nd, 2012
11:37 am
I think accusing young draftees of atrocities qualifies as smearing, and Kerry’s testimony has been captured and preserved for anyone who has doubts.
The typical *well what about*….misdirection regarding anyone on the democrat enemy list is totally irrelevant to the discussion at hand and reveals only an inability to admit the facts presented.
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
11:45 am
wingfield has written some dorky post about his bing crosby fantasy of “White Christmas,” that doesn’t involve Obama bashing. I guess that is the reason the white trash that normally live on his blog have chosen to come over to this one to post their hate rhetoric and insane rants. With bloggers closing down their posting until after the holidays, I wonder how these haters are going to cope. With nowhere to vent their spleen and vitriol, I feel sorry for their dogs, children and their wives, since it’s normal for those types to beat up on any and all of them when they have no outlet for their perpetual anger. Peace on earth y’all
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
11:46 am
Weetamore
It is a done deal.
Accept it and live with it…
Crying won’t help you
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
12:01 pm
Notice how much more angry the sodomites become as we draw nearer to the day of our Redeemer’s Magnificent Birth?
CC
December 22nd, 2012
12:10 pm
I am amazed that ‘you don’t say’ can even type. It must be extremely difficult and painful for it to do so. Just think, typing with two broken arms is quite an accomplishment! It broke both its arms patting itself on the back for its ‘service’ to our country. IF it truly has three purple hearts, it should be awarded another for injuries sustained in the line of congratulating itself. It should also be given a public relations commendation for advertising itself as often and as much as possible. I just wonder if it might be ‘false advertising’?
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
12:14 pm
Cc
Yet you never served a day…
Weak coward
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
12:19 pm
Cc
Being secretary of the Gomer Pyle Fan club doesn’t count
CC
December 22nd, 2012
12:26 pm
“Yet you never served a day…”
It blogs daily with many people who have served but have no need to brag about their service or belittle those who have not served in the military. What a sad, pathetic little life it leads!
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
12:30 pm
Crying Conservative
You are a weakling.
Better men than you will ever be served to protect cowards such as you…
You know it each time you look in the mirror.
You are an empty shell, but you do have a flag magnet on your car.
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
12:31 pm
aesop @ 1201: as we draw nearer to the day of our Redeemer’s Magnificent Birth?
Your redeemer? The one that says peace on earth (while aesop says bomb bomb Iran), the one who says give one of your caits to the needy (while aesop says let the moochers and parasites starve) the redeemer who threw the money changers out of the temple (while aesop says tax cuts for the rich). You got quite a ways to your redemption, pal, you and your dollar worshipping, war mongering, hate mongering conservative brethren.
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
12:33 pm
Cc
Wants a big military as long as he and his don’t have to serve in it…
Typical coward..
Scared of his own shadow….
Go play with your GI Joe dolls
Later punk
clem
December 22nd, 2012
12:36 pm
assop probably knows a lot about sodomy
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
12:42 pm
Aesop and CC weren’t even accepted as volunteers in the Salvation Army..
Bwahahahahahahahah
John Kerry
December 22nd, 2012
12:48 pm
Reporting for duty!!! Did I mention I served in Viet NAM!!!
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
12:54 pm
How much do you tithe, Auntie?
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
1:00 pm
In a bit of Democratic comeuppance for dinging Mitt Romney for how little he pays in taxes, Wonkblog published this chart of presidential candidates’ tax rates. And wouldn’t you know, John Kerry had a (slightly) lower tax rate than Romney does. In 2003, a year before running for president, Kerry’s tax rate was 13.1 percent, versus Romney’s at 13.9 percent in 2010.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
1:02 pm
Kerry stands by ‘yes’ vote on Iraq war
Republican Senate
December 22nd, 2012
1:11 pm
Just don’t cry when the vast majority of the Republican Senators vote YES to confirm.
One blogger said 80 plus. It will be 90 to 95 “YES” votes
Republican Senate
December 22nd, 2012
1:14 pm
The confirmation hearing will take less time then it took for Romney to compose himself, stop crying and make his “I was beat down” speech on election night.
td
December 22nd, 2012
1:27 pm
Rafe Hollister
December 22nd, 2012
10:41 am
” like Kerry. A rich man”
Don’t you really mean a “Kept man of a rich woman”?
td
December 22nd, 2012
1:28 pm
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
12:31 pm
The communist loving, America hating slimball is back.
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
1:48 pm
s td, what’s a slimball? Is that the opposite of a fat ball? I’ll bet name calling makes you the most popular little girl in your middle school, but here among the adults you’re just the pimply-faced twelve year old that nobody likes.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
1:57 pm
Why would Republicans oppose kerry’s nomination? Pass up a chance to let the democrats make laughingstocks out of themselves? They don’t need much help but whatever we can do.
td
December 22nd, 2012
2:02 pm
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
1:48 pm
Slimball: The green mucus coughed up in the morning when a person has a head cold:
After the anti-American rant you went on yesterday down grading one of the bravest service men this country has ever had, yes you have no room to talk and you are a slimball.
If you do not like it then come find me, slimball
td
December 22nd, 2012
2:04 pm
Aesop’s Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
1:57 pm
You are right and he will be the next SoS but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth allowing a person to get to the position of 4th in line to the Presidency that should have been shot with her friend Fonda for treason.
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
2:26 pm
td
December 22nd, 2012
2:02 pm
If you do not like it then come find me, slimball
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You shouldn’t be that hard to find. I’ll head over to the square in Mayretta and ask someone where I can find the village idiot. I’m sure your rep as town clown extends all over the county.
And then maybe you can explain how a criticism of john mccain, is somehow an “anti-American rant.? ” How stupid is that. You cheer on the confederate loving America hating klan types that come here every day and call the President of our nation everything from a N*****er to a traitor, but when I call out the phoniness of john mccain, who is a legend only in his own mind and small minds like yours,, I am the anti-American. Again, I ask, how stupid is that?
you dont say
December 22nd, 2012
2:30 pm
Aesop was a Salvation Army reject and lonely bitter man…
Cry away little fella..
Your ODS is bad, but far from your mental, anger and lack of social skill problems
If you don’t get help at Charter, please get help somewhere
Dr Schavago would use you as a test case
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
5:05 pm
Let me see if I can get the Galloway Blog Attack Puppy to resume it’s yipping and yapping.
YDS? You there?
td
December 22nd, 2012
6:02 pm
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
2:26 pm
Slimball,
I do not care what people call Obama because he is nothing more then an elected politician that has not sacrificed anything for this country.
CC
December 22nd, 2012
6:12 pm
Aesop:
“Let me see if I can get the Galloway Blog Attack Puppy to resume it’s yipping and yapping.”
Why would you even want to summon it?
Real Athens
December 22nd, 2012
6:21 pm
“I do not care what people call Obama because he is nothing more then an elected politician that has not sacrificed anything for this country.”
Arguably, that is the most inane, pompous, absolute lie you’ve written here. And buddy, that list is looooonnnnngg.
Love, hate or indifference, he has already sacrificed far more for this country than you have in your lifetime.
Real Athens
December 22nd, 2012
6:34 pm
“How much do you tithe, Auntie?”
Um, In the New Testament, Jesus mentions tithing three times: Luke 11:42; Matthew 23:23 (which includes the comment from Luke) and Luke 18:12 Each time it is a reprimand to the attitude of the Pharisees about tithing. He never instructed his followers to tithe and there is no record of him mentioning the matter again.
A fool and his money.
“Everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
Real Athens
December 22nd, 2012
6:43 pm
Pictures speak more than words:
http://www.infowars.com/kerry-and-mccain-introduce-resolution-to-legitimize-invasion-of-libya/
td
December 22nd, 2012
6:51 pm
Real Athens
December 22nd, 2012
6:21 pm
“I do not care what people call Obama because he is nothing more then an elected politician that has not sacrificed anything for this country.”
Arguably, that is the most inane, pompous, absolute lie you’ve written here. And buddy, that list is looooonnnnngg.
Love, hate or indifference, he has already sacrificed far more for this country than you have in your lifetime.
Let me stop laughing a minute and play this game with you. Please, please, please tell us all what Obama has sacrificed for our country?
Thanks Auntie Christ...td is an idiot
December 22nd, 2012
7:33 pm
Thanks for your facts [in your first post in this thread] about McCain…John Boy, born into wealth, married into more [ trophy wife] wealth, after the first wife was disfigured in a car wreck, and he had a Newt Gingrich-style one-side negotiation divorce. What a raid. At least he has to protect his status as a POW by admitting that torture is a crime, and morally wrong.
McCain is the guy who would have America one heart beat away from being lead by a real [Fox News bimbo] village idiot: Sarah Palin. Even Garrison Keeler did a riff about how McCain must have selected that bimbo based on his failing libido.
The plane crash that put McCain in Hanoi was his third jet crash…any other pilot that had crashed into power lines while under altitude over the beaches of Spain had already been weeded out. Too bad he didn’t listen to ground-to-air missile avoidance lectures, but hey, when you are born a yuppie GOP spawn, you expect a pass.
Kerry was born into wealth, but as a man, of real character, he volunteered for Vietnam, unlike Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Beck, Limbaugh, Bortz, and most of the hate radio and GOP electorate frauds. Where was Saxby? Playing golf? At the frat house? Max Cleland volunteered, you fraud, despite what that sleaze Ann Couleter said [for you].
You GOP rich-kissing village idiots keep resenting those Americans like Clinton and Obama who have earned what they have through work, and keep sucking up to the rich. Buy gold, invest with Madoff, vote GOP. You don’t have a clue how to live if Wal-Mart doesn’t get that next delivery and your unlimited plastic charge cards don’t give you Platinum status among the wage slaves. You may learn how low-wage slavery works if I’m the one feeding you, GOP frauds. The least informed in America know what being dumped on is like. Elites are revoltingly simplistic in their greed, and easy to spot.
td, you re an idiot. If you want to worship a born-into-wealth monarchy, move to Britain. Let the rich elites-by-birth eat their jewelry…they certainly would sell off their kids futures to stay “ahead”. What pathetic ‘patriots’.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
December 22nd, 2012
7:37 pm
He never instructed his followers to tithe
A direct cut and paste from an EHow article -
http://www.ehow.com/about_4572423_what-does-jesus-say-tithing.html
Easier than actually reading the Bible, is it?
Auntie Christ
December 22nd, 2012
8:08 pm
s td
December 22nd, 2012
6:02 pm
I do not care what people call Obama because he is nothing more then an elected politician that has not sacrificed anything for this country.
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Of course you don’t care, no one is surprised by that statement because as I have pointed out on numerous occasions when your hypocrisy is so amply demonstrated. You have no consistency of belief, you have no moral center, no ethos, only an abiding racism, bigotry and disdain for anything not white, middle class, and conforming to your narrow, limited world view. You are so predictable with your memes of “anti-American,” ‘’socialist,” and other pox news/tea party rote speech that you and the others like you on this site are caricatures. You’re a joke. Not only do we laugh at you, but we break wind in your general direction. Breath deep and have a happy HOLIDAY. LOL