Scholars rank Kerry dead last in terms of effectiveness

No surprise there considering Obamas reactionary and too little too late "foreign policy" process. He did receive two votes out of 660 respondents. What a joke.

"Secretary of State John Kerry, working diligently on some extraordinarily difficult foreign policy issues — China, neo-Soviet Russia, Islamic State, Iran, etc — isn’t getting even a tiny bit of credit these days from the tweedy, elbow-patched, wing-chair crowd.

Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of its 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges.

One question they were asked was: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?

The winner? Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger, who was secretary for four years during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Since the Vietnam thing didn’t turn out so well, the scholars must have been grading him on openings to China and the Soviet Union when he was at the National Security Council?

Kissinger got 32.21 percent, extraordinary in such a large field.

“Don’t Know” came in a relatively distant second, with 18.32 percent.

James Baker — who was actually the most effective secretary in the last 50 years — came in third at 17.71 percent, just behind Dr. Know.

Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton tied for fourth at 8.70 percent.

George Shultz was sixth with 5.65 percent.

Dean Rusk, who served in the Kennedy-Johnson years, came in seventh at 3.51 percent.

Warren Christopher got 1.53 percent, tying Cyrus Vance for eighth place

Colin Powell was picked by 1.07 percent for tenth place.

Condoleezza Rice got the nod from 0.46 percent putting her in 11th place.

Lawrence Eagleburger came in 12th place with only 0.31 percent.

Then, dead last, is John Kerry. He got a total of two votes of the 660 scholars who responded. tied Eagleburger’s 0.31 percent, but the magazine lists him at 13th."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/02/05/scholars-rank-kerry-dead-last-in-terms-of-effectiveness/?hpid=z4

By Golly those same Scholars said the number one foreign policy issue facing the United States was Global warming......the best and brightest scholars said it was Global warming. The question to the scholars on SOS was the most effective......John Kerry has hardly made it to his second anniversary and this survey was done in 2014 when he had not been in office more than a year. Duh!

2seaoat wrote:By Golly those same Scholars said the number one foreign policy issue facing the United States was Global warming......the best and brightest scholars said it was Global warming.  The question to the scholars on SOS was the most effective......John Kerry has hardly made it to his second anniversary and this survey was done in 2014 when he had not been in office more than a year.  Duh!

Sounds like a pitiful excuse but you are good at those.

And they said "Global Climate Change" not GW.

Duh is right.

And they said "Global Climate Change" not GW.

So your duh goes to Global cooling.......double duh

2seaoat wrote:And they said "Global Climate Change" not GW.

So your duh goes to Global cooling.......double duh

Wow! You can't even make something up that sounds good.

So, you disbelieve all the science about climate change? That's not the same thing as warming/cooling - it's a lot more complex than you want to make it appear.

But - whatever.

That's not the same thing as warming/cooling - it's a lot more complex than you want to make it appear.

Triple duh.......man made pollution is contributing to global warming.....the climate change which is too complex......is getting warmer.....those all knowing scholars did not put it on the top of their list because of global cooling......you know that too complex thing for me to understand. The Pentagon agrees, and I bet in John Kerry's short tenure as SOS that he understands that warming is the direction....not cooling. That will earn him at least another two points in the survey next decade when they will conduct a poll which actually is relevant to John Kerry's tenure.....but thanks for the link....it has been a hoot.