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1. Thanks,
Wed Nov 28, 2012, 07:42 AM
Nov 2012

I read this this morning, and I agree with you on your assessment of the article. I just do not have an idea who this person is.


Here is what the Globe has this morning.

http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/11/27/susan-rice-seeks-support-for-secretary-state-nomination-john-kerry-keeps-his-own-counsel/0Vqz7UdrN5HtHQ7mQ6mmYP/story.html


Amid wrangling on Hill, Kerry keeps visibility low
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His recent low profile starkly contrasts not only with his previously outspoken tendencies but also with the prominence of Ambassador Susan Rice, who is widely considered the front-runner to replace Clinton. Rice has been under fire for comments she made in the days after the attacks on the US mission in Libya.
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“I don’t think he can do anything more than be mum,” said Douglas Brinkley, a historian and Kerry biographer. “Anything he spoke out and said at this point, people would be dissecting it and analyzing. It wouldn’t be helpful.

“Kerry’s doing what he should be doing,’’ Brinkley said. “This is not a time to be all over on television. You lay low.”
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The Washington Post suggested two weeks ago that Obama was considering Kerry for secretary of defense. But those who know Kerry say that they cannot see him taking such a position — or any post other than secretary of state — and that he would probably continue in his current role.

In disengaging from any public relations battle, Kerry is taking a page out of a playbook he used in 2000, when he was on the short list to become Al Gore’s running mate. Kerry largely disappeared from public view (but still began writing notes for a possible acceptance speech at the Democratic ­National Convention).


It pretty much summarize what we tried to say, and do that in a paper of record that has never been very positive concerning Kerry.

Frankly, I am not sure at this point why the Obama administration waits. Make a decision, give a name and stop this melodrama. This waiting does not help Rice.

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