Kerry Slams US In Davos Summit
Ed Morrissey

There's something about the Davos economic summit that drives American leftists to slam their own country while abroad. Two years ago, Eason Jordan lost his job at CNN over his accusations in Davos that the US military had a policy of assassinating journalists in war zones. Today, John Kerry used the forum to scold the Bush administration for its foreign policy while specifying two issues that predate it:

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry slammed the foreign policy of the Bush administration on Saturday, saying it has caused the United States to become "a sort of international pariah." ...

Read the whole thing. If it was anyone but Kerry I'd have trouble believing he said it. 

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Domestic Pariah Calls US "A Sort of International Pariah"
Greg Tinti

Live from Davos, baby.

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Speaking of a message of duplicity and hypocrisy, for the record, Kerry voted for a resolution in 1997 that stated that the US should not be a signatory to the Kyoto protocol because it "did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations" and could "result in serious harm to the economy of the United States." Simply put, Kerry voted against Kyoto.

And while there is certainly a lot of things to criticize President Bush about, his commitment to fighting the AIDS crisis in Africa is not one of them. Under the president's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), $15 billion has been committed to a 5 year plan which has led to approximately 800,000 Africans receiving drugs to fight the disease and to help prevent mother to child transmission. Some estimate that PEPFAR has saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

What a terrible message that sends, huh John?

Update: ...

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John Kerry's Real Opinion of his Own Country
Kim Priestap

While in Switzerland at a world forum and while sitting right next to a powerful Iranian mullah, John Kerry, the man who almost became president in 2004, called the US "a sort of international pariah":

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What are this man's intentions in regard to America? First he spoke ill of America in front of a Senate committee about our troops in Vietnam, and now he speaks ill of America in front of a world forum. Is John Kerry even capable of speaking positively about his own country? Does he understand that his words are giving comfort to our enemies because he's echoing their view of us or is he just that stupid? For God's sake, he is encouraging the terrorists and insurgents to continue their attacks on our our troops in Iraq who are on the front line of our foreign policy efforts. Not only that, but North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela are helping Iran to essentially hold the rest of the world hostage by helping it to create nuclear weapons, and John Kerry calls us the pariah?

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Kerry rips Bush in front of former Iranian president at Davos; Update: Video added
Allahpundit

This isn’t the first time a major Democratic politician, or even Waffles himself, has handed Islamic fundamentalists a propaganda freebie.

The unwritten rule about politics ending at the water’s edge is long gone, and we’re going to have to think very hard now about how best to restore it. If that means Gingrich or Giuliani going over to Israel or Australia or Japan when the Democrats are back in the White House and badmouthing the new president’s foreign policy, so be it. Tit for tat.

It’s come to this.

Kerry was asked about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.

Kerry said the Bush administration has failed in addressing a number of foreign policy issues. ...

“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today.”…

Kerry criticized what he called the “unfortunate habit” of Americans to see the world “exclusively through an American lens.”

He said this while seated next to the former CEO of one of the world’s foremost terrorist states, which as we speak is working on building nuclear weapons, bankrolling Hezbollah’s efforts to foment civil war in Lebanon and Hamas’s exterminationist jihad against Israel, and supplying Shiite militias with IEDs to kill American soldiers in Iraq. Whose current leadership, lest we forget, Kerry has previously signaled a desire to meet with. Note the bolded bit in the quote, too: given a direct choice between defending the president or siding with the Iranian government circa 2003 — whose nominal leader was, of course, Khatami himself — Lurch essentially chose the latter. ...

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US A Pariah, Hezbollah Not So Much 
Dan Riehl

Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, foot in mouth Senator John Kerry, perhaps now liberated to be a total clown, suggested that the problem with America is Americans, recommended sending former President Clinton to settle matters in Iraq, while also claiming America is an international pariah because of Bush - and somewhere along the line he found time to pose with former Iranian President Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Speaking at Harvard University, the Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami denied that Hizballah is a terrorist organization, and called it “a symbol of Arab resistance.” that story at lgf

You also might recall Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney recently denying a taxpayer funded police escort for Khatami when he spoke at Harvard.

Along with the pariah remark, Kerry also said: ...

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Stuck in Davos
Jules Crittenden

Kerry shows up in Switzerland, hangs with terror-loving scum, bashes Bush.  Sorry, I don’t feel like writing much more about this guy right now.  Don’t worry, others are: ...

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Jon Carry Not a Traitor...
Blackfive

Hot Air has the details and video of that sonofabitch getting cozy with one of the most evil people on the @#$%ing planet.

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And see the post below as the Iranians most likely executed our soldiers in Iraq.  But he's friendly with them because we're the @#$%ing pariah?! ...

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Tom Elia: "John Kerry is a complete and utter schvance." Actually, Tom, a schvance has a better head on it but your on the right track.

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Glenn Reynolds:

JOHN KERRY does it again. Like Jimmy Carter, he'll never forgive America for rejecting him, and he'll console himself with the approval of America's enemies.

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Letting Kerry Be Kerry Again
Jules Crittenden

In case you are wondering, unofficial Kerry fan site The Democratic Daily has survived the tragic loss of their tragic loss.

Unwilling to just Let America Be America Again after Kerry the President Apparent bailed on them, the Dem Daily has seized on Kerry the Foreign Policy Conscience of the Nation.  DemDaily on Kerry and his terrorism-happy pals at Davos here, and be sure to scroll down for the bubbly letter of condolence. 

I support this new role for Kerry.  ...

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Michelle Malkin: "All I can say is: Thank God for the Swift Boat Veterans."

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John Kerry: some things never change
Jay Tea

One of John Kerry's more notable characteristics is his tendency to "flip-flop," to change his position on an issue when it becomes convenient. It's also rather remarkable how he can rationalize it as not contradictory, but entirely consistent and logical and correct.

But in many other ways, Kerry is remarkably unchanging. In those ways, his fundamental character just shines through.

My superb colleague Kim yesterday talked about WHAT John Kerry did in Davos. As the site's resident New Englander, who's lived in the state next door to Kerry's home of record all my life, I thought I would give it some context and show that his actions are entirely typical for him -- and why he (as always) doesn't see why anyone would be upset with him.

As almost everything in his life does, it all goes back to Viet Nam. More specifically, to the 3 months John Kerry spent there, because nearly everything he's done since has been built on those three months.

After Kerry returned from Viet Nam, he threw himself into the anti-war movement. And, I think, he's always trying to relive those heady days, to recapture the time when he was the toast of the town. ...