Senator Rand Paul ties John Kerry in knots over foreign policy
Or it might be more accurate to say, Sen. Rand Paul exposed John Kerry as an elitist interventionist today during his Senate confirmation hearing. John Kerry, clearly annoyed at a strict view of constitutional limitations, accused Rand Paul of being an “absolutist.” Damn straight.
A simple question I had for Sen. John Kerry today: “I believe in candidate Barack Obama who said in 2007 that the president doesn’t have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack. I’d like to know if you agree with me and candidate Barack Obama, or if you agree with President Barack Obama who took us to war in Libya without Congressional authority unilaterally? – Sen. Rand Paul
Sen. Rand Paul:
In the early 1970s, you know, after Vietnam, you were quite critical of the bombing in Cambodia because I think you felt that it wasn’t authorized by Congress…Has your opinion changed about the bombing in Cambodia? How is Cambodia different than Libya?
John Kerry:
Look, you can be absolutist and apply it to every circumstance…The problem is it just doesn’t work (The Military Industrial Complex or the Constitution?) in some instances. When 10,000 people are about to be wiped out by a brutal dictator and you need to make a quick judgment about engagement, you certainly can’t rely on a Congress that has proven itself unwilling to move after weeks and months sometimes.
“American foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone,” Kerry said. “The world is competing for resources in global markets. Every day that America is unwilling to engage in that arena…is a day in which we weaken the nation itself.” – John Kerry 1/24/2013
It’s been a busy week for Sen. Paul–stirring up a liberal hornets’ nest! If you missed it, make sure you watch how he challenged Sec. Hillary’s incompetence over Libya a few days ago here.
The angry tit baby lib is correct. Rand will only be a one term Senator. His next political position shall be president!
I second that DunceCap!
Oh Sheeple! Wake up! I Betcha Unlimited federal reserve banking cartel pyramid scheme fiat dollars that he not only will be re-elected as a Senator, but that me & my hard working, freedom loving comrades will wake up enough folks to ensure he is elected POTUS in 2016 as well! If this is too complicated for you to understand, then I can no longer throw stones at infertile minds as they will only fall to the wayside. Those who have ears to hear, eyes to see, and Internet to search, will do so. At this time, ignorance is a choice.
Amen!
No…the next president will be a woman. 🙂
Sadly, Hitler resurrected with a sex change could earn some discriminatory votes based on gender. The banking cartel which controls our puppeticians know this, and that is why Obama won. What’s sad is that the revolution for equal rights has resulted in discriminatory voting. Wake up, sheeple! Vote on principle! Vote for the candidate that trusts you enough to give you your money & liberty! If you put your faith in anything but your god given abilities, it will fail!
If I broke a law, and argued with the Police, a Judge, and a jury of my peers that they being “absolutists” about said law, I doubt that it would work in my favor. Espescially in an instance where lives were lost. Should not a government be held to the law it itself put in place?
Rand Paul is playing a chess match & I find it interesting to observe. He, like his dad, is one of us among being a doctor, author, etc. He is in politicTolkien his father by divine intervention to wake America up, give us our freedom back, and save this country!
*like his father
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Rand Paul for President 2016!
First, those resources Kerry talks about don’t belong to us. They belong to those sovereign nations. We have no right to foment uprisings, funding and playing both sides of the fence, and then claiming the US must go in to establish democracy.
And that is the excuse that the military industrial complex uses to bypass Congress on the corrupt reasoning that the military must act fast.
Ludicrous. Totally insane, financially unfeasible, completely immoral, and against our values as a people.
It’s all a scam. We know it. Stick it to ’em Rand. They’ve had it coming a long time.