Article on Sec. Kerry in National Journal

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2. I could not agree more, karyn

Concerning " media wants their favorite characters to be the ones who succeed ", this does not only go for Democrats. It is kind of amusing (or at least it would be if the situation was not tragic) to what point the media wants Paul Ryan to save the day, as if he was some how less conservative than the rest of the GOP leadership (only member of the leadership to speak at the Values Voters meeting: http://www.valuesvotersummit.org/speakers. But they insisted he was the one who got Obama to fold (really? The guy who meets with the birthers?).

Anyway, this is a reasonably good article, which, with all its flaws, which shows Kerry's strengths. And it may be that Rice sets the policies with Obama. After all, Kerry has not been that much in DC these last few months.

BTW, Kerry's negotiation skills could be useful in the existing crisis. After all, the only hostage taking that end well are those with hostage negotiators. They do not give away anything, but they talk. Otherwise, the hostage die, and we are the hostage here.