"I am not an ideologue," said President Obama to disbelieving Republicans in an early budget showdown. And he is not, on domestic issues.

He is on foreign policy.

In Obamaworld calling terrorists "terrorists" is discouraged. They are...differently-abled. In the president's State Department under Hillary Clinton, Pakistan was an ally and "Fight, Talk, Build" a strategy; Tahrir Square was filled with democrats and Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were moderates with whom the administration could work, and who were still deserving of American aid.

Clinton has now departed, Republicans (and some others) vigorously opposed the president's first choice, Susan Rice, as replacement. The president has now nominated Senator John Kerry. Under the foreign policy ideology of Obamaworld Kerry is the perfect choice. Influential Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham like the choice (and Republican Scott Brown's chances of being Kerry's replacement in the Senate). Foreign leaders like Kerry, they know him, they've talked to him.  John Kerry has got the "talk" part of Obamaworld strategy down; he'll talk to anybody. He was for talking with Bashar Assad before he was against it; he was for funding the Iraq war before he was against it.

Who amongst us doesn't like John Kerry for Secretary of State?  Here.