John Kerry

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/us/politics/awkward-limbo-for-rice-as-criticism-rages.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1354976319-pfVrd+7DcDlAJJaZcoNCOA&_r=0

While I will not point at what I agree or not, I find this fascinating for what it shows concerning how nominations are made.

Another article states that another possibility would be for Rice to become NSC (and Obama's Kissinger I guess) dominating whomever is chosen as SoS. I am not sure how much this article is well sourced, but I have often wondered why they did not go this route.

Also, these last few days, I got the impression Kerry did not think he could win anymore. Of course, these impressions are just feelings, based on the number of interviews he gave, the fact that he openly talks about bringing back the treaty to the Senate floor, or his request largely published in the MA media for the administration to release a report about fishing. I may obviously be wrong, but it is quite a change of behavior compared to last month.