Report: Obama Picks Kerry For Next Secretary Of State

[karynnj]

102. In that case, read the paragraph

It says that given the 2 under consideration, Obama intended to choose Kerry.

To me, as a known Kerry partisan, I see that Rice and her allies got behind a media effort to make her inevitable. If you look back, EVERY story saying she was the number 1 choice goes back o the WP. Kerry was atypically quiet - even on foreign policy issues other than the treaty. In a way that made her a bigger target for the Republicans, If there is anything the AA population should question it is why she was used as the face of the administration on the problematic Sunday shows. Was it Rice being ambitious or the WH making her the designated scapegoat?

How you answer that determines if you blame Obama? Kerry had no involvement here, though he could have been the one to speak in the Sunday shows and from all prior exposures, he is far better at not saying anything that could later be called untrue. Oddly, that also demonstrates how Kerry's political skills are an advantage. Remember that with little party support and even less media support he won the nomination in 2004. Throw in that few question his temperament or diplomatic skills.

The fact is that Obama had two excellent, but very different choices. What strikes me as weird in the AA comments is that they argue that as she was fully qualified, she should have gotten it and otherwise it is an old boys' network. This ignores that Senator Kerry is a completely qualified, experienced alternative. To reject Kerry for being white and male is JUST as wrong as rejecting her for being black and female.