John Kerry has always impressed me with his ability to be wrong about… well, everything. You can imagine my shock when I saw him make an absolutely brilliant point! As PJMedia’s Bridget Johnson reports:
Secretary of State John Kerry said today “…you think migration is a challenge to Europe today because of extremism, wait until you see what happens when there’s an absence of water, an absence of food, or one tribe fighting against another for mere survival,”
Brilliant! Finally, here is Kerry taking a bold stance on some serious issues, you know like:
Absence of Water
Absence of food
Or one tribe fighting against another for mere survival
Alas, this is John Kerry we’re talking about, and as you’ve probably already guessed the quote was taken out of context. Here is the rest:
“…at an Arctic conference in Anchorage that “anybody running for any high office in any nation in the world” should visit a place where the “seismic challenge” of climate change is happening “and inform themselves about this.”
“And we as leaders of countries will begin to witness what we call climate refugees moving – you think migration is a challenge to Europe today because of extremism, wait until you see what happens when there’s an absence of water, an absence of food, or one tribe fighting against another for mere survival,” Kerry told the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference.
Cute acronym. And of course, like any good leftist military “hero”, Kerry goes on to belittle what our military accomplished in WWII by comparing it to his precious little cause:
“We are hardly the first generation in human history to face uncertainty about the future. Seventy-five years ago, our predecessors faced a world that was literally engulfed by strife, where seemingly all of Europe was overrun by evil, and civilization itself seemed to be in peril. We had leaders then who rose to that occasion, and we have all seen a world that is better for what came out of it with the United Nations and multilateralism and commitments to humanitarian and other missions,” he said.
“The threat posed by climate change is obviously entirely different in character. But it is not different in its global reach or its potential to do harm. And the urgent need for global cooperation, for global commitment, for global choices is exactly the same as it was in the 1930s and ’40s and ’50s. If only we fully grasp that, if we commit ourselves to climbing this mountain together, then I am absolutely convinced that we will meet the obligation that we have to future generations, we will meet it here in the Arctic, and we will meet it for the rest of the world.”
My term “generation of trust funders” seems to fit perfectly here. There actually is a point to this post other than the shooting-fish-in-a-barrel of making John Kerry look stupid. Note the crisis items that I cited and the links to what’s behind very real threats on those topics. These are serious issues that require sober, adult discussions and some hard choices. Not to mention that each have been fueled by the policies of the radical left. But of course, instead of focusing on solutions to real problems, Kerry lazily rolls them up into every radical leftist’s favorite per cause, Climate Change.
And that’s my biggest problem with how the left views problems and solutions. If a problem involves hard decisions and can only be solved by difficult action, then it’s not really a problem. Only problems whose “solution” is some combination of tax increases and more government intrusion in our lives are considered a crisis that demands attention.
Sadly, our Republican leadership seems to feel that the people who want real solutions are the problem.
And if you’re wondering what Kerry accomplished at the GLACIER summit, it went as well for Kerry as one would have expected.
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You mock Kerry for volunteering to join the Navy during the Vietbam war
He had one of the cushiest posts but repeatedly asked for a more dangerous one
He served on 2 Swift boats with 5 enlisted men serving under him
9 out of the 10 men supported and campaigned for him during his run for POTUS
The 10 th could not be located
Shame on you for mocking his military service while glorifying your own “volunteering”
Has anyone but myself noticed that all warnings about “global warming” and their carbon boot-print inducing conferences all occur during the summer when, traditionally, it is hotter than, say, in the winter?
@John: His military service is mocked because he threw his fellow soldiers under the bus, lying about them to further his political career. Bergdahl honorably volunteered for service as well, but just as treacherously he turned on his comrades and actually contributed to the deaths of some of them.
Kerry didn’t volunteer to join the Navy.
Kerry volunteered to join the Navy RESERVES in hope that he could sit out actual service.
But water under the bridge.
Kerry mistakes man-made stupid decisions’ perfectly foretellable consequences with global warming.
Only a few weeks ago the City of Long Beach, CA (my home for over 40 years) legislated a new policy with regards keeping chickens and goats.
Used to be you had to keep them penned up in rural areas of the City….like near the Los Angeles Riverbed.
Now, it is legal to keep them in your yard, as long as your next-door neighbor’s door is at least 10 feet away. http://lbpost.com/life/pets/2000006409-urban-ag-ordinance-city-council-delivers-new-pecking-orders
So, what happened?
Coyotes.
Yes, Long Beach is being inundated with coyotes.
So, what’s the cause?
Free range chickens and baby goats.
And, how is the city dealing with their coyote problem?
By telling folks to adjust to living side-by-side with them!
No fight.
No push-back.
Just get used to it.
http://lbpost.com/news/city/2000006924-community-coyotes-seminars-aim-to-craft-consensus-among-residents
Yeah, they wrote that: we learned that if we kill them, they will just have larger litters to make up for the loss.
@Bill:
Actually there have been several of these ‘conferences’ in the past that were snowed in – in early spring/ late fall when snow was not usually expected — both in Northern and Southern hemispheres!
Kerry made his money the old-fashioned way–he married it, twice–so there is no big surprise to see he is the ultimate limousine liberal. He has been living in comfort all but the richest of the rich can even imagine for decades, making a carbon footprint the size of a large South American nation while prattling on about how everyone else on the planet is ruining it. He is a hypocrite, of course (he’s a liberal democrat), but he’s also incredibly boring, something he has in common with so many Dems, for some reason…
@Nanny G:
Same crap in outlying areas of Seattle!
@JSW: They don’t call him the world’s ugliest Trophy Wife for nothing!
Wasn’t his fellow shipmates in Vietnam used for negative ads?
Wasn’t he the one who wrote himself up for his medals?
Wasn’t it verified that when his column of patrol boats was attacked he was the only one who bugged out leaving the rest?
Wasn’t he awarded a Purple Heart for mortaring his own dumb ass?
Wasn’t the term swift boated coined because of the bad press his fellow compatriots painted him during the election
Yep his service was exemplary
For a lib this is good at least he didn’t kill some of his fellows with friendly fire
how many times did kerry shoot himself for purple hearts? To bad his wife killed her husband while having an affair with kerry. you all recall the chopper pilot who flew too close to her than husbands plane had terminal cancer and the family was paid over $3 million. short and long term memory loss is boundless in this country.
kerry is a drumk
California, along with other leftist states, have been welcoming illegal immigrants. Yet they ignore the truth that this flood of illegal residents must logically add to the state’s carbon footprint and in increased water consumption.
@Ditto: Stop trying to introduce logic to lefties!