Kerry -- At Least He is Better Than Rice

President Obama has nominated John Kerry to be the next Secretary of State. All I can say is that at least this is a better nomination than had Susan Rice been the designee. After all, by making Kerry Secretary of State, Obama gets this pompous fool out of the senate where he had become part of the furniture after twenty five years.

Kerry's world view is clearly not one that will serve the USA well. He is someone who has no problem with weakening America, and he also believes that multilateral solutions are fine even if they work to the detriment of the USA. Still, this fits right in with the basic world view of Obama, so it is really no big deal. I mean Secretary Clinton had a bit more backbone than Kerry will ever have, but the final decisions were always up to Obama. Kerry is not going to meaningfully affect policy because of that.

One possible plus from all this is that Scott Brown may get back into the senate. Who knows? The idea that there could be a GOP senator from Massachusetts again seems bizarre, but stranger things have happened.

One last note. The White House's view of the importance of the Kerry nomination is best shown by the fact that Obama released it to the press not only on Friday afternoon, but on the Friday afternoon before Christmas. It is hard to think of a less propitious beginning for Kerry's tenure at State.