Rest assured: the Iran negotiations are in the very best of hands
Or rather, mouths.
As if things were not bad enough, we now have the appointment of one of our very favorite spokespeople to the Iran negotiations team:
Acting State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf is being promoted to Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to Secretary of State John Kerry.
Harf will focus on negotiations between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons.
Perhaps this is not as bad as it seems. Perhaps she will merely be relaying messages to Kerry (although I’m not sure she can even do that with accuracy). I’m not even sure this qualifies as a promotion, because it means we’ll be seeing less of her.
Harf certainly has shown the single trait that Obama cares about in his subordinates: enough dogged loyalty to be willing to take a lot of punishment and spew out a lot of garbage for Team Obama.
[NOTE: See this for previous posts of mine that feature Harf.]
Failing upward.
The petunia principle replaces the peter principle.
Maybe this also demonstrates that Obama and Kerry are having trouble finding experienced, qualified people to hire for the position?
Remember when administrations used to be peppered with experienced, long-time DC operators? Obama has instead surrounded himself with young, under-to-barely qualified people like John Favreau, Ben Rhodes, Tommy Veitor, Marie Harf, etc.
Marie Harf is eminently qualified to be Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications to Secretary of State John Kerry. In this administration, the essential qualification “for Strategic Communications”… being the ability to lie, deflect and obfuscate with a straight face.
Lest we forget: the “H” is silent…
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One wonders just how many vapor ‘negotiators’ the Iranians are going to be suited with?
Perhaps they don’t realize that ‘Arf’ is the ultimate insult?
One is reminded of Shakespeare’s Osric {Hamlet} the tool of Laertes (almost Brother-in-Law) and Claudius (Uncle-King) of Hamlet.
… All fop and circumlocution.
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Ayatollah Soetoro is entirely aware that sending a gal on a man’s mission is an insult to Muslims.
Harf’s new ambit reflects some imperial pique at Tehran’s counter-narrative to his spew.
Think of this as a wet towel snap in the bath-house.
Left unsaid:
JFK will be withdrawing his eminence — stage left — from the atomic Kabuki show.
Indeed, the narrative /policy opera may be headed back for re-write…
The ayatollah is chooming on this very prospect as we post.
blert:
The head of the Iran negotiations for the US is already a woman.
The pool of acceptable candidates in a Kerry State Department must be rather slim. Any candidate with an average IQ or above would be the smartest person in the room at any meeting if hired.
They’re activists whose priority is the narrative for domestic politics.
I am deeply against striking any woman with a poo-poo cushion filled with wet cement, but for Harf I’d make an exception.
Perhaps The Iranians will respond by hiring Bozo The Clown to speak on their behalf. At least this would insure that negotiations continue on a level that Obama and Kerry can understand.
I am deeply against striking any woman with a poo-poo cushion filled with wet cement, but for Harf I’d make an exception.
I’ll bring the poo-poo cushion.
All in the spirit of 50 Shades of Grey since the womyn relish it so much ….
Remember when administrations used to be peppered with experienced, long-time DC operators? Obama has instead surrounded himself with young, under-to-barely qualified people like John Favreau, Ben Rhodes, Tommy Veitor, Marie Harf, etc.
It’s not a problem for them, it’s a feature. They are conducting purges to ensure loyalty first, as man commissars did before. Competency ranks a low third on the priority list.
They are conducting purges to ensure loyalty first, as man commissars did before.
WHEN THEY COME FOR THE SMALLER GROUPS. . . .
COOOOL….! The same genius who recently blamed ISIS “extremism” on impoverished childhoods.