Democratic Underground - Joan Vennochi about Kerry.

I guess she sees that as positive, but it makes me bristle, because it is largely about how Kerry wants out of the state. At least, she recognizes that he is good at foreign policy, which I guess, should make me happy.

However, in the context of a campaign to make Scott Brown the regular guy who cares about the state, it makes me uncomfortable.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/02/04/kerrys_sharp_eye_on_the_secretary_spot/

Kerry’s sharp eye on the secretary spot

he Bay State’s senior senator is running an unofficial campaign to become the next secretary of state. For once, he looks artful, as well as ambitious.
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A piece I subscribe totally:

Back at home, Kerry doesn’t always get respect. He’s either being dogged over docking a yacht in Rhode Island instead of Massachusetts to avoid taxes, or ignored. A recent speech he delivered to the Center for American Progress about what’s broken in American politics was overshadowed when Joseph Kennedy III, Robert F. Kennedy’s grandson, sounded a similar theme on the same day.
But in Washington, it’s different. Kerry’s speech got great respect. Gushed the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein, “Frankly, it’s the speech President Obama should be giving.’’ Kerry also won praise for helping Obama win Senate ratification of the START arms control agreement with Russia.

I could not believe that young Kennedy's speech got that much play, including by the Senate leader. It was absolutely ridiculous.

The paragraph before this one is not worth posting. The same insinuation about Kennedy overshadowing Kerry and Kerry flip-flopping in 2004. Worse, she sees Brown overshadowing Kerry as well. Moron.

Frankly, this article sounds to me as an attempt to push Kerry out of the Senate to open a seat for somebody. Knowing that Vennochi has been promoting Charlie Baker for years, it could be that or anybody else. Who knows.
This would probably be the only explanation of this article that tells us that we should not want to have a bright guy as senator? In the mean time, this is another attempt to show Brown as somebody who cares about the state compared to Kerry who does not.

You can always count on her to push the GOP line.

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