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In reply to the discussion: Is this the Kerry 2016 thread? [View all]karynnj
(59,501 posts)58. If he came close to that, the WORLD would lobby for the US keeping him SOS
and I would bet that if the position and his skills made him solve even one retractable problem, that would be what he has really wanted to do all his life. I am not saying he didn't want to be President, but that he wanted that for what he could do. (Kennedy notes this in his autobiography when he spoke of being with Kerry late election night 2004.
I seriously doubt that he would consider running - even if the timing did not make it impossible. It would be incredibly hard on his wife as well as the rest of the family.
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Well there's a reason Newt came nowhere close to winning the Republican nomination.
Drunken Irishman
Jan 2013
#25
Here is why Hillary and Kerry candidacies are not what we should be talking about.
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#39
mainly because half the people I was with believed it until I explained the situation to them
uppityperson
Jan 2013
#36
You keep looking backward. This is 2016 we are talking about and Clinton should have been allowed
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#64
True. Hillary is not ordinary, but I genuinely hope we can find someone younger
JDPriestly
Jan 2013
#72
Clinton was a loser too - she got less far than Kerry, who had Ohio not been rigged would have
karynnj
Jan 2013
#59
She is the same age as Hillary45,without the resume. Has the senate even been in session yet?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#42
To do one specific thing her fans want her to do. She is not going to be like say
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#63
Where is the sarcasm smilie? This is the silliest idea I have ever heard of.I would NOT vote for him
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#41
yeah, and John will be sitting in a corner on 1/17/17 applauding President Hillary Clinton 45.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#44
Be nice to Hillary45, you need her to keep JKerry on as SOS to beat McNamara's SOS longevity record.
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#48
for vp. Hillary45/Biden. History set. Then in 2020, Hillary45/Michelle46
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#53
Did you say that about FDR? Gore? JFK? Bobby? John Quincy Adams? Jerry Brown?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#77
Out of all of the potential and viable Democratic Party presidential candidates for 2016.....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#75