John Kerry Objects to a Presidential Election – Thirteen Years Too Late

Tom Gallager @ Common Dreams - When I heard that Secretary of State John Kerry thought “there ought to be a recount” in the 2013 Venezuelan presidential election and said that the Obama Administration would be having “serious questions about the viability of that government" if “there are huge irregularities,” I did understand that this was pretty much pro forma stuff, not to be taken too seriously. The Cold War may be twenty years gone now, but the Administration probably still figures that it won’t hurt itself any by talking tough about people who sound like Communists, now will it? But Kerry’s remarks did, sadly, remind me of the time when then-Senator John Kerry might have raised a meaningful objection to a questionable presidential election – Bush-Gore in 2000 – but instead chose to forever hold his peace.  Read more.