Kerry - The Road Ahead (Huffington Post), and other news.

An old British Prime Minister was once asked what were the greatest challenges that a statesman faces. His response was simple: "Events, dear boy, events."

This week we got a tragic and searing reminder from Mumbai, India, of the scope and scale of the challenges that President-elect Obama, his team, and all of us will face in the months and years ahead.

The good news is that this week, Barack Obama passed his first test as President-elect. After ending the era of "my way or the highway" foreign policy on November 4, he put the nail in the coffin this week when he nominated a terrific, talented national security team of thinkers every bit as diverse as they are impressive. Whatever surprises the world holds for America, we can count on the efforts of an all-star team to respond - and deliver.

What we do know is that the next administration will be asked to undertake the tough work of remaking American foreign policy in the (long overdue) post-George Bush era. And as we rethink, it's time we finally take the full measure of the 21st century threats we face. While a previous generation's defining security "events" often came internationally--Roosevelt defeating Hitler, Kennedy standing down Khrushchev--today the very definition of national security is being rewritten to include threats that know no borders: global terror, global AIDS--lately--global finance.
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A bitter brew for Kerry
By Joan Vennochi
December 4, 2008
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Did you ever notice...
that whenever Joanie Vennochi gets bored, whenever the Commonwealth ceases to amuse or divert, when the trogs and trolls go quiet and there are no "names" to conjure with...that she starts reflexively clawing away at John Kerry like an old unloved house cat?
The world teeters on the brink of a new Dark Age and all Spiteful Joanie can think to do is snarl in disappointment that JK isn't leaving Massachusetts for Foggy Bottom thus denying her the loutish spectacle of a special election for the US Senate.
Decadent...that is what Joanie is, she has passed thru an election for the ages all she can do is yawn, sneer at John Kerry can yearn for some new political brawl to stimulate her jaded sensibilities.

Sick
Demented
Typical....

Kerry says he will investigate offshore accounts
By Gintautas Dumcius/State House News Service
Tue Dec 02, 2008, 06:46 PM EST



Cambridge, Mass. - U.S. Sen. John Kerry, set to assume the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Monday he would use his post to investigate offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands.

The Caribbean islands have gained notoriety as offshore tax shelters.

“It’s just a great big tax dodge,” Kerry on Monday night told a crowd in Prospect Hall.
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