If memory serves (and I’m all too afraid that it does), Carole King, who wrote the song, sang it to Fidel Castro.
It would have seemed more sincere if Kerry sang it. Not sure if it is enough to lift America out of the chickensh*t coward category however.
Makes you yearn for the White House’s hashtag democracy.
“………’You’ve got a friend’ to France”
France, really?
James Taylor was simply the next best thing because Cat Stevens was already booked.
Off-topic
He’s still there! Now! Brian Lilley sub-hosting Lowell Green Show at cfra.com
Cat Stevens?? Yusuf Islam??
I think you might be right! Cat (Yousef Islam)was undoubtedly “getting on the peace train” with some of the local imams and mullahs!
Imagine Taylors reaction when he got the 3 am call. Harf immediately comes to mind as the source of this immature prank. Canada needs a border fence.
What brain dead, dope smoking, burned out hippie, …….. would think that bringing Taylor along to sing a song would somehow make the greatest threat to western civilization, since the rise of Communism, go away and that everything would now be ‘hunkie dorie’. At some point in the future when the history of the Obama era is written and this event is written up as a sidebar the reader won’t believe it ever occurred.
you forgot the “blow me up” vest clad peaceful jihadists on that train
My God, that’s embarrassing. Dr. Krauthammer’s diagnosis of these guys is dead on. Histrionic narcissism. They have no idea what ridicule they bring on themselves and, of course, don’t care.
The “Swiftness” is not with this boater…US govt is MIA.
al-Quaeda and ISIS send killers; the US sends in guitarists.
Send in the dragons… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2tlNmz4ao
Peter, Paul, And Mary ~ Live ~ Puff The Magic Dragon ~ 1965
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Go Away kerry you,ve already proven liberals are a bunch of sniveling little whimps
Just when you thought the Obama administration could be any more incompetent. I am embarrassed for them.
What a worthless gesture. Now, bringing in Jerry Lewis would have meant something to the French.
I know that the Jerry Lewis thing is supposed to be a joke, except that the last time I was there, I was scanning the channels and there were two different Jerry Lewis movies on.
A hollywood stunt. Embarrassingly stupid and vapid.
JT still sounds good and is playing with precision but he’s still one of ’em.
John >
“What a worthless gesture. Now, bringing in Jerry Lewis would have meant something to the French.”
Well put.
But again, who said this was really for the French?
JT for the USA ,Canada’s Ignatieff rapping Parachute Club’s “Rise Up” mantra from his mansion in southern France with Boney M reprising RasPutin reppin’ Russia would have saved a lot of money and made a great 3 way package for touring France.
That’s your quality comedy, right there! Who says the reality shows have ruined TV?
Hashtags and hugs diplomacy is perfect for Foggy Bottom (Isn’t that an Earl Scruggs number?). Chamberlain had nothin’ on this crowd of air-headed teeny boppers?
I picked a fine time to go senile.
Jesus, this is what the great USA has been reduced to? Elections matter folks.
Want ketchup with that cheese?
“I was hugely motivated also by eight years of Cheney/Bush, and I say it in that order on purpose. It was a tough time for me. I really suffered. It made me deeply ambivalent about my country — that we would choose that, even if we may not have chosen it. But that that’s what represented us in the world. I felt as though after September 11, the diversion, the distraction of the nation’s concern and energy into Iraq was unpardonable. I felt that it was inept, corrupt and opaque. Those were tough years for me. And I was very deeply motivated in 2008 to see Barack Obama — this wonderful, sort of a surprise, really. I couldn’t believe our luck that we had gotten such a real person as to make it through the filter system of our politics.” James Taylor.
What actually happened is Obama sent along some DVDs of himself with Austrian subtitles. Someone tells Kerry that in Paris they speak a language that is neither English nor Austrian. Plus something about NTSC and PAL that didn’t make any sense. Someone from the Marine corpse was walking by and said, “Try James Last” thinking instrumental music would avoid language barriers and Last would be readily available in PAL. Kerry replied he didn’t have time to phone anyone else and so would be calling James (Taylor).
The phrase that comes to mind is “stiff geezer”.
As you were……
Could have been worse if you can believe it. JohnKerryHeinz once stated that he “is fascinated by rap”. Go ahead and google it.
He should have taken AC/DC along and had them do the far more appropriate “Highway to Hell”.
I never could stand the syrupy Taylor,or any of that family> It seemed for a while every Taylor on the planet did an album.
The really scary thing is they think this helps. Helps the mooselimbs maybe, but not civilized countries, not that the cheese eating surrender monkeys where civilized. But what is the WH thinki….oh wait. Forgot about muzzie-in-chief.
Kerry is such a twat. I wish I could produce a more profound assessment but that’s as far as it goes for him.
Hey, smart diplomacy … hey, let’s give all our secrets to the MB, they’ll return the favor.
Fire and Rain would have been a more appropriate song for the occasion.
Send in the Clowns more like
John Kohn Kerry Ketchup
this whole hashtag like get together in france is a joke. Obumbles was right, by accident, not to send a rep, but then he realizes that he didn’t screw up so he has Kerry Kohn do a double wammy screw up
A couple of Looney Tunes…
“Send in the clowns” might be very appropriate since one of the next lines is “….never mind they’re already here.” and that certainly defines Kerry and Obama perfectly.
The court jester has brought along his trusty old poet and harp. Does nobody vett these ridiculous PR stunts? To bad Bo Bergdahl’s parents were too busy to tag along – that would have totally made this clown show worth its while.
Wake me when the last hippie is dead. Good line Kate
Duh the 60s are over John
Well, I suppose he couldn’t very well sing “You’ve got a friend in Jesus” could he? No doubt about it, these are very strange ways of conducting diplomacy!
I’d argue that this is one of the most cringe worthy episodes of Kerry’s tenure.
.
Nasal James Taylor, desperately needing a nose blow, with Kerry standing like a pork chop in a synagogue or should I say mosque. Truly embarrassing – Americans, at least American political officials. seem utterly devoid of irony.
This is just so terribly embarrassing. We are the world’s only superpower. We should be respected and feared for an array of things: our military might, obviously; our economy, based on letting loose the creativity of our citizens; our standing as the last, best hope for mankind (nastily tarnished though that may have become as of late…).
Obama or Biden (assuming he could have found his way out of the paper bag…) or at least SoS Kerry should have been in Paris last week, locking arms with the rest of the world in a show of strength and defiance, dozens of middle fingers raised to Islamists everywhere. Not sending a folk singer on a feel-good message. Kerry was swaying a bit there, thank goodness his eyes weren’t closed while he silently sang along. But you could see that he WANTED to.
To our forefathers: I do so much apologize that this nation which you have built has been allowed to sink so low. I promise to look manly at the next Veteran’s Day parade. Head held high, chest out, cap on straight, and no rainbow flags or apologies.
This is the frat boy level of maturity that governs America at this time in history. Petulant and creepy are good words to describe the Obama administration. It is no wonder that America has become the laughing stock of the rest of the world. I am laughing. I Fookin hate Obama and everything he stands for. He is wrecking the free world.
Brings new meaning to the phrase “tone deaf foreign policy”
This ranks up there as one of the most limp-dicked things the Obama administrations has ever done.
Je suis Pussy
Lucky they didn’t play that at the Bagdad Hotel, would have brought new meaning to “getting stoned” for them.
I caught Kerry’s left toe Break Dancing for the inner city “youth” that may be watching.
Covering his bases, covering his bases.
A day late and a dollar short, anyone?
The Last Tradition
If memory serves (and I’m all too afraid that it does), Carole King, who wrote the song, sang it to Fidel Castro.
It would have seemed more sincere if Kerry sang it. Not sure if it is enough to lift America out of the chickensh*t coward category however.
Makes you yearn for the White House’s hashtag democracy.
“………’You’ve got a friend’ to France”
France, really?
James Taylor was simply the next best thing because Cat Stevens was already booked.
Off-topic
He’s still there! Now! Brian Lilley sub-hosting Lowell Green Show at cfra.com
Cat Stevens?? Yusuf Islam??
I think you might be right! Cat (Yousef Islam)was undoubtedly “getting on the peace train” with some of the local imams and mullahs!
Imagine Taylors reaction when he got the 3 am call. Harf immediately comes to mind as the source of this immature prank. Canada needs a border fence.
What brain dead, dope smoking, burned out hippie, …….. would think that bringing Taylor along to sing a song would somehow make the greatest threat to western civilization, since the rise of Communism, go away and that everything would now be ‘hunkie dorie’. At some point in the future when the history of the Obama era is written and this event is written up as a sidebar the reader won’t believe it ever occurred.
you forgot the “blow me up” vest clad peaceful jihadists on that train
My God, that’s embarrassing. Dr. Krauthammer’s diagnosis of these guys is dead on. Histrionic narcissism. They have no idea what ridicule they bring on themselves and, of course, don’t care.
The “Swiftness” is not with this boater…US govt is MIA.
al-Quaeda and ISIS send killers; the US sends in guitarists.
Send in the dragons…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC2tlNmz4ao
Peter, Paul, And Mary ~ Live ~ Puff The Magic Dragon ~ 1965
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Go Away kerry you,ve already proven liberals are a bunch of sniveling little whimps
Just when you thought the Obama administration could be any more incompetent. I am embarrassed for them.
What a worthless gesture. Now, bringing in Jerry Lewis would have meant something to the French.
I know that the Jerry Lewis thing is supposed to be a joke, except that the last time I was there, I was scanning the channels and there were two different Jerry Lewis movies on.
A hollywood stunt. Embarrassingly stupid and vapid.
JT still sounds good and is playing with precision but he’s still one of ’em.
John >
“What a worthless gesture. Now, bringing in Jerry Lewis would have meant something to the French.”
Well put.
But again, who said this was really for the French?
JT for the USA ,Canada’s Ignatieff rapping Parachute Club’s “Rise Up” mantra from his mansion in southern France with Boney M reprising RasPutin reppin’ Russia would have saved a lot of money and made a great 3 way package for touring France.
That’s your quality comedy, right there! Who says the reality shows have ruined TV?
Hashtags and hugs diplomacy is perfect for Foggy Bottom (Isn’t that an Earl Scruggs number?). Chamberlain had nothin’ on this crowd of air-headed teeny boppers?
I picked a fine time to go senile.
Jesus, this is what the great USA has been reduced to? Elections matter folks.
Want ketchup with that cheese?
“I was hugely motivated also by eight years of Cheney/Bush, and I say it in that order on purpose. It was a tough time for me. I really suffered. It made me deeply ambivalent about my country — that we would choose that, even if we may not have chosen it. But that that’s what represented us in the world. I felt as though after September 11, the diversion, the distraction of the nation’s concern and energy into Iraq was unpardonable. I felt that it was inept, corrupt and opaque. Those were tough years for me. And I was very deeply motivated in 2008 to see Barack Obama — this wonderful, sort of a surprise, really. I couldn’t believe our luck that we had gotten such a real person as to make it through the filter system of our politics.” James Taylor.
What actually happened is Obama sent along some DVDs of himself with Austrian subtitles. Someone tells Kerry that in Paris they speak a language that is neither English nor Austrian. Plus something about NTSC and PAL that didn’t make any sense. Someone from the Marine corpse was walking by and said, “Try James Last” thinking instrumental music would avoid language barriers and Last would be readily available in PAL. Kerry replied he didn’t have time to phone anyone else and so would be calling James (Taylor).
The phrase that comes to mind is “stiff geezer”.
As you were……
Could have been worse if you can believe it. JohnKerryHeinz once stated that he “is fascinated by rap”. Go ahead and google it.
He should have taken AC/DC along and had them do the far more appropriate “Highway to Hell”.
I never could stand the syrupy Taylor,or any of that family> It seemed for a while every Taylor on the planet did an album.
James Taylor sang the same song on the Simpsons. Nuff sed. http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/James_Taylor_(character)
The really scary thing is they think this helps. Helps the mooselimbs maybe, but not civilized countries, not that the cheese eating surrender monkeys where civilized. But what is the WH thinki….oh wait. Forgot about muzzie-in-chief.
O/T but part of the insanity currently the fashion in ‘Murica.
Here is some oil on troubled waters, Pelosies parting gift to America.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/nancy-pelosi-to-name-muslim-brotherhood-linked-muslim-congressman-to-house-intelligence-committee
Kerry is such a twat. I wish I could produce a more profound assessment but that’s as far as it goes for him.
Hey, smart diplomacy … hey, let’s give all our secrets to the MB, they’ll return the favor.
Fire and Rain would have been a more appropriate song for the occasion.
Send in the Clowns more like
John Kohn Kerry Ketchup
this whole hashtag like get together in france is a joke. Obumbles was right, by accident, not to send a rep, but then he realizes that he didn’t screw up so he has Kerry Kohn do a double wammy screw up
A couple of Looney Tunes…
“Send in the clowns” might be very appropriate since one of the next lines is “….never mind they’re already here.” and that certainly defines Kerry and Obama perfectly.
The court jester has brought along his trusty old poet and harp. Does nobody vett these ridiculous PR stunts? To bad Bo Bergdahl’s parents were too busy to tag along – that would have totally made this clown show worth its while.
Wake me when the last hippie is dead. Good line Kate
Duh the 60s are over John
Well, I suppose he couldn’t very well sing “You’ve got a friend in Jesus” could he? No doubt about it, these are very strange ways of conducting diplomacy!
I’d argue that this is one of the most cringe worthy episodes of Kerry’s tenure.
.
Nasal James Taylor, desperately needing a nose blow, with Kerry standing like a pork chop in a synagogue or should I say mosque. Truly embarrassing – Americans, at least American political officials. seem utterly devoid of irony.
This is just so terribly embarrassing. We are the world’s only superpower. We should be respected and feared for an array of things: our military might, obviously; our economy, based on letting loose the creativity of our citizens; our standing as the last, best hope for mankind (nastily tarnished though that may have become as of late…).
Obama or Biden (assuming he could have found his way out of the paper bag…) or at least SoS Kerry should have been in Paris last week, locking arms with the rest of the world in a show of strength and defiance, dozens of middle fingers raised to Islamists everywhere. Not sending a folk singer on a feel-good message. Kerry was swaying a bit there, thank goodness his eyes weren’t closed while he silently sang along. But you could see that he WANTED to.
To our forefathers: I do so much apologize that this nation which you have built has been allowed to sink so low. I promise to look manly at the next Veteran’s Day parade. Head held high, chest out, cap on straight, and no rainbow flags or apologies.
This is the frat boy level of maturity that governs America at this time in history. Petulant and creepy are good words to describe the Obama administration. It is no wonder that America has become the laughing stock of the rest of the world. I am laughing. I Fookin hate Obama and everything he stands for. He is wrecking the free world.