BERLIN — John F. Kerry has done town hall meetings in Manchester, N.H. He has fielded questions about corn subsidies from voters in Des Moines, and stumped in cities across Massachusetts.
But on Tuesday, the new secretary of state brought those political skills to Germany, holding a town hall meeting here with students in the foreign country where Kerry himself spent time as a child. He cracked jokes, often at his own expense. It was, as he made clear on this third day of a whirlwind tour of European and Middle Eastern capitals, an emotional journey.
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Kerry is a botched joke. What about his other memorable trips including spending Christmas in Cambodia when Nixon was President?
in America, you have the right to be stupid.........Kerry/Edwards.......
This story has to be mistaken. SOS Kerry was partially raised in Germany, was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is now the U.S.' chief diplomat - and he doesn't know much abut Muslims in Germany where Turks by the thousands have emigrated for decades to perform jobs the Germans did not want, at the same time being ghettoized and discriminated against by German ethnics? Does Kerry know that most Turks are Mosolems? What a schlemiel!!
Not to mention that he just told Germany that we burned witches in Massachusetts. I didn't come here until I was an adult, but I'd learned in school that no witches were burned in the New World, that the Salem victims were hanged or, in one case, pressed. He had to show his ignorance while putting down our history of tolerance -- to the Germans, yet!