Like the fake president from Independence Day, another fake president will not go quietly into the night either.
"John Kerry isn’t going quietly into the night", declares the Boston Globe's headline.
And a good thing too. Without John Kerry, whom could we laugh at? Joe Biden?
“We’re going to have one hell of a debate over the course of the next few years . . . and I can promise you this . . . I am not going to go quietly into the night,’’ Kerry declared to raucous applause from the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, which gathered in Washington Tuesday for what was billed as a valedictory address. What they got instead was a cri de coeur not to toss hard-fought deals in the dustbin.
John Kerry does love his cri de coeurs. And he will not go quietly into the night. Instead he'll have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of Foggy Bottom. And then out of his favorite D.C. nightspot. And then his wife will have to pick him up at the station where he will be driven back to his mansion in a discreet limo. Where he will refuse to go quietly to bed without a story and a hot toddy.
Hoarse from a cold, Kerry went on for an hour, warning that if Americans cut off the world, we’ll pay the price. Without naming Trump, he bemoaned blaming others for problems we’re “unwilling to address.”
Can anyone name a single problem that John Kerry has successfully addressed besides the lack of absurdly comical figures at the helm of the State Department?
The US isn’t a poor nation, Kerry said, and shouldn’t act like one by cutting the mere 1 percent of the budget that goes to foreign aid.
What's trillions in debt between friends?
But you can’t fault Kerry for taking Dylan Thomas’s advice to “not go gentle into that good night.”
If Dylan Thomas had met John Kerry, he might have disagreed.