Source: Obama has chosen John Kerry as Secretary of State

[Tansy_Gold]

164. Excuse me? You just made the point for me

John Kerry is "entitled" to nothing. He does not have an inherited "title" that "entitles" him to. . . . .anything.

He can certainly choose to retire, and he has earned a pension (not that he needs it). He can leave public service and take a job in the private sector if he so chooses. And if the president chooses to nominate him for Secretary of State, he can accept that nomination and endure the confirmation process.

But if it's all about what John Kerry is (to use your word) entitled to and not what's best for the people of Massachusetts, or the Democratic party, or the country as a whole, then it's all about John Kerry.

Look, we watched four years ago as the president took Democratic governor (Janet Napolitano) after Democratic governor (Kathleen Sebelius) out of red states and put them into cabinet positions. Those two states in particular have gone redder and redder and redder in administration if not in electorate, and I have to put part of the responsibility for that on both the appointees and the president.

Now, after the country has just gone through this whole crap with the election, the House remaining red, the Senate healthily blue, the president (and apparently with your personal blessing ) wants to risk putting the whole structure into flux again because "John Kerry is entitled to it"????

(And how you can think being Secretary of State is "beyond politics" is beyond me.)