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stephanie
12-15-2008, 11:14 PM
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Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor December 15, 2008 06:29 PM

Senator John F. Kerry met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Islamabad today. (AFP/Getty Images)

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry was named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee today, pledging to use his stewardship of the influential panel to strengthen American interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, help end the war in Iraq, and craft solutions to the climate change crisis.

The Massachusetts Democrat is already on an extended tour of trouble spots that will likely consume the foreign policy attention of President-elect Barack Obama. Kerry met today with leaders in Pakistan and India, trying to ease tensions between the two nuclear powers over the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

He next goes to Afghanistan, where Obama wants to deploy thousands of additional troops to fight the war on terror. The first stop on Kerry's itinerary, which began over the weekend, was the Republic of Georgia, the front line in Russia's more aggressive stance against the West. Sunday, he and Obama talked about a global warming conference in Poland that Kerry attended.

"We have a big agenda ahead of us, just as our country faces big challenges across the globe," Kerry said in a statement from Islamabad.


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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/12/kerry_officiall.html

PostmodernProphet
12-16-2008, 06:47 AM
every cloud has a silver lining.....just think of all the new senators we will be getting to replace Clinton and Kerry and Obama.....

Noir
12-16-2008, 08:00 AM
every cloud has a silver lining.....just think of all the new senators we will be getting to replace Clinton and Kerry and Obama.....


Indeedy, I read that JFKs daughter may be standing for Clintons seat.

PostmodernProphet
12-16-2008, 09:51 AM
ah I read this too quickly....thought this was a cabinet appointment.....unfortunately we aren't losing Kerry....

darin
12-16-2008, 10:38 AM
That's just sick, IMO...In fact, that kerry remains 'elected' speaks volumes for the number of felons, dead, or idiots who make up the majority of his constituants.

:(

5stringJeff
12-17-2008, 09:11 PM
That's just sick, IMO...In fact, that kerry remains 'elected' speaks volumes for the number of felons, dead, or idiots who make up the majority of his constituants.

:(

It's Massachusetts, AKA "Taxachusetts"... need we say more?