"Politics must end at the water's edge."

Hey! John "F"ing Kerry! Read the title of this post carefully and take it to heart. Those are the words of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg (R) Michigan, U.S. Senator (1928-1951). That's the only acceptable attitude when you are overseas. Going to Davos and talking smack about your own country is the lowest.

Kerry, seated next to former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, said the United States has become an “international pariah”:

Mr. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, made the comment as he responded to a question about whether the U.S. government had failed to adequately engage Iran’s government before the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005.“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” he said.“So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I’ve never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons, as it is today.”

Would someone please remind the Senator he voted against Kyoto.

Brit Hume on my favorite panel discussion, FoxNews Sunday had a great zing. I think he was trying to lighten the mood as much as catch the spotlight. Bill Kristol was really angry and I agree with him.