Boston Globe speculates about Kerry being Secretary of State.

[beachmom]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/27/convention_perspective_room_for_kerry_at_state_department/

It basically starts off that since Biden is VP, this opens things up for Kerry.

But Kerry has a longstanding interest in foreign policy, having punched almost as many stamps on his passport as Biden and John McCain on fact-finding missions abroad. In recent years, with his international profile enhanced by having been his party's 2004 presidential nominee, Kerry has enjoyed even greater cachet in meetings with world leaders and struggling liberation movements alike.

Perhaps more significantly, he feels an intense personal involvement in Iraq -- an issue that will dominate much of the next presidential term.

In the midst of Britain's Suez crisis, a 1950s foreign-policy debacle that is sometimes compared to the current US war in Iraq, the wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden memorably declared that "In the past few weeks, I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing room."

The Tigris River has been flowing through John Kerry's drawing room since 2002, when he voted to authorize the president to go to war in Iraq. It was a fateful decision. ....

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As a Vietnam veteran who ended up protesting that war, Kerry remains attuned to the plight of soldiers endangering their lives for an uncertain cause. The fate of people in Iraq is, at this point, a personal issue for him. Whether he feels responsible, or merely sympathetic, or some combination of both, nothing would satisfy him more than to be able to bring the war to a smooth ending.

I wish the Globe would do articles on real things that are happening now with the Senator, or something he has done in the past couple of years. But since they seem to be unable to do so and want to subtly undermine his re-election campaign, we will just have to accept these sorts of articles popping up. So given that reality, this is not a bad article.

[JI7]

1. there was an article about maybe Kerry being able to chair foreign relations committee

even though Dodd is next in line, he might prefer to focus on some other chairmanship he would have . and also because some think it might be a "less important" position with Obama and Biden as Pres and VP.

but isn't JK just the type that would disagree with that about the SFRC ?

[Inuca]

2. Actually, IMHO

the chairmanship of the SFRC would be MORE important with Obama and Biden as P and VP. Maybe less in the lime light, but the chance to actually GET THINGS DONE for a change.