'Birthers' must be stopped - Los Angeles Times
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President Bush's Lame-Ass Appointments: The Gift that Keeps on Giving!
President George W. Bush's recess appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Robert Bolton, in the news, still. From his Wikipedia entry:
John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948), is an American conservative political figure who has been employed in several Republican presidential administrations. He worked as the interim Permanent US Representative to the UN from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment, and resigned in December 2006 when his recess appointment would have ended[1] [2] and he was unable to gain confirmation from the Senate.[3][4]
John Bolton Won't Shut Up About Bombing Iran
A PATTERN EMERGES.... Time's Joe Klein notices that a certain former U.N. ambassador has a preoccupation with bombing a certain Middle Eastern country, and manages to keep finding major newspapers to publish his thoughts on the subject.
In the Washington Post today, screw-loose wingnut extraordinaire John Bolton has a column in which he advocates an Israeli strike against Iran. This would be shocking, except that...
On June 26, Bolton had an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in which he advocated bombing Iran. And, well, er...
On June 12, he had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he advocated bombing Iran.
And that's just three op-eds in three weeks. We could go back a little further and find Bolton -- in op-eds, on Fox News -- advocating military attacks on Iran for years.
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For a typical "chicken-hawk" who lusts for war when it's not his own ass on the line, recall this from Bolton's Wikipedia biography:
"Though Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost."[9] In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from." [10][11"
So, let me get this straight, because of the liberal media elite, the war in Vietnam was already lost by 1970, and even if Bolton had gone over and turned the tide, Ted Kennedy would have surrendered on behalf of all pinko-commie-loving hippies here in the U.S.
Right...
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Winners Never Quit, Quitters Never Win!
Why is Sarah Palin quitting on Alaska? Here's what some bloggers are writing:
"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."
Maureen Dowd in Saturday's New York Times:
"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," Van Flein said in a statement. "This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."
Maureen Dowd in Saturday's New York Times:
"Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.
Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy ...What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she’s not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn’t feel like finishing her first term as governor.
She can hunt wolves from the air and field-dress a moose, but she fears being a lame duck? Some brickbats over her ethics and diva turns as John McCain’s running mate, and that dewy skin turns awfully thin."
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