Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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Bolton On Obama: "We Haven't Plumbed The Depths Of That Ignorance Yet"
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
9:44 AM
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Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton was my guest yesterday. The podcast is here, the transcript is here. Key excerpts:
HH: Now Mr. Ambassador, one of the things he said that caught my ear on Friday was that when Kennedy met Kruschev, we were on the brink of nuclear war. It’s a minor paraphrase, but he clearly did not have a good grasp on the history of the United States in the 60’s. When Kennedy met Kruschev, it was in June of ’61. The Cuban Missile Crisis came in ’62. What does that tell you about just generally his grip on the necessary fundamentals, the basic chords of how you conduct foreign policy?
JB: Well you know, the liberals used to ridicule Ronald Reagan for remembering scenes in movies that had never actually occurred in real life, and I think what Senator Obama is remembering is the liberals’ view of the Cold War. That meeting between Kennedy and Kruschev in the early days of the Kennedy administration was a humiliation for the new President Kennedy. Kruschev understood that, and he judged new President Kennedy to be so weak at that point, weak as a person, that many think it was a significant factor in Kruschev and the Soviet Union’s decision to put those missiles in Cuba to begin with, a crisis that did, in fact, bring us to the brink of nuclear war. So this is, the stakes of summit diplomacy are high, and really goes to what I think is just a fundamentally important point about negotiation and diplomacy generally. And that is like all human activity, it has costs and benefits. It has to take place in a specific context, and you have to look at when it benefits the United States, when we should engage in it, what our objectives are. This is all about specifics and context, and that is, I think, one of Senator Obama’s biggest weaknesses. He talks in vague generalities, and so far, look, he’s getting away with it. But that’s not how you conduct foreign policy in the real world. ...
HH: Do you think [Obama] had any kind of a serious vetting yet in terms of the media drilling down on things like…do you think he understands the relationship, say, between Hezbollah and Iran?
JB: I think the, we haven’t plumbed the depths of that ignorance yet, but I wouldn’t count on the mainstream media to do it during the course of the campaign. Look, he has led a very cosseted, privileged existence in his life, that this is not somebody born in poverty who was risen by his bootstraps. He’s had, basically, a fairly comfortable middle class life. He’s gone to Ivy League universities, he’s lived in a liberal bubble in Chicago. And you know, you don’t have to acquire a lot of knowledge to be acceptable in those circles, and I think what we’re seeing is, as he emerges from that bubble, we’re seeing his view of reality. And I think it’s right there for Senator McCain to go after.
HH: Now you have spent way too many hours across the table from North Koreans and Iranians. How tough are they? What will they make of Odalai Bama, the kid from Chicago?
JB: Well, I think they will make hash of him and his advisors, too. Let’s not forget one of his most amazing defenses against being criticized for him saying he would negotiate with the rogue states without preconditions was to say well, I wouldn’t negotiate without preparations, without lower level exchanges, as if somehow we’re confused about what he said. But remember, he also has a team of advisors that I’m sure the rogue states would love to negotiate with, even if it never gets to him. This is a very serious issue of the United States, as to who’s going to represent us in international affairs, whether it would be Obama and his team, or McCain and his team.
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I feel good! What's this demoralized? Can't undermine my inner beauty, ff, at this point in life. Don't need 'shrooms; what would my seniors think?
Saw Jan gave you the upside the head. Knew you were in trouble for the Cabal Girls remark - nice little backpedal by you.
Plus, you were kind to Patrick of the Clan Sofa; he took the Bolton stuff hard. See ya on another thread, Lefty |
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had nothing to do with the Decemberists.
I didn't hear anybody say "hey, are you going to the Decemberists concert on the waterfront on Sunday?"
I did hear plenty of people say "hey, are you going to see Obama on the waterfront on Sunday?" |
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...Well, be back tonight when I can judge the goings-on without mercy.
Ya know, Kids, De Nile is mo' than a rivah in Egypt. Libs-Leftoids...Whew.
And B.Hussein O'Bammy will play hell finding some middle sanity with ALL he owes to the large Money $$ Leftoid Nutters....My'o'My.
Well, Vast Inexpressable GOOD For Mankind* to address. Later, Buckos! |
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and so much here to feast upon. Paddy, me-lad, I think the desperation--as previously noted--is showing and cracking. Blovie's "best" is tepid, at best. Dudds is demoralized(when not doing Mushrooms)and this Newbie Nutter is, well, as you suggested, due for a beddy-bye at Shadey Acres next to the now comatose Peakster.
Hillary massively tweaked all that's weak and silly about the shipwreck their headed for yesterday in Kentucky. Op-Chaos Marches On! |
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...It is better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and prove it...CHECK-& FOOL's MATE to the Obama and his claque of inbreds and homie acolytes. The REALIGHNMENT ELECTION(Love Train) is coming-on like Thunderball in November. Get-on board all Kosmonauts,PM/PL's/PC'er's; CAPTIVE MINDS and fans of BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER. YOU SHALL BECOME LIKE THAT WHICH YOU BEHOLD(Blake)...
Arthur McVarish, Houston |
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Just when I thought I'd go to bed, I checked in here and read Truth's truth. Wow. and y'all's responses! wonderful!
I'm still chuckling...it would be even funnier if it weren't so very sad... |
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By your own testimony, it will be quite dangerous for Mr. OBama, Son of Africa, ( of Course, as you know the mother is white, and American?),
to enter the frightful menacing place, called The White House.
FirstTruther, devious, rainbow shades of distorted plots you find inside your beautiful faded white mind,
shattered reality,
in a moment's time
fear pulls it back into a
distorted vision
of a pale woman
Comrade Hillary?
I believe!
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Michael Jackson and how the U.S. of KKK destroyed him and his generation. Government distributed drugs----Holy Cow, Batman, the Liberals are taking over like the walking dead.
ROSIE O'Donnell and her Liberal pathologies of "detonated" buildings in lower Manhattan----Stupifying!
CHARLIE SHEEN'S delusional certainties as to World Trade Center towers being "brought down" in a calculated fashion. His mind is made up in that it was all an, "inside job", the destruction of WTC and the 3,000 dead----frightening!
SEAN PENN and his similar delusions.
NOAM CHOMSKY and his Lefty-Looniness in the USA's orchestration of killing millions of women and children in Afghanistan prior to 9/11/01.
HOWARD ZINN and his rewriting of historical perspective reflecting the above and much much more bull$hit.
And, on and on and on and on and on........now we have Michelle Obama's Theory of, "Moving Bars".
And on and on and on and on...
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I forgot you guys consider retreat and humiliation a great victory....!
My mistake..... |
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...that those like this racist, "TruthFirst", belong to hate-filled churches, such as the one by Reverend Jeremiah Wrong.
This conspiracy theory crapola is so predictably Liberal in its underpinnings. The narcissism in its myopic and self-centered perceptions is, well, delusional. Bat-$hit crazy, people like this. Wow.....it is mind-numbing.
Then you have the other wacko Libs here who are apologists for these brain-dead souls.
A head-spinning exercise of the first order. |
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Paddy,
you and yours got destroyed on the thread. You sound like the boxer lying on the table after the Friday night fight, mumbling to his trainer: "what round is it?" |
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Went back to never-never land and was surrounded by little boys and lived happily ever after.Don't worry truth1st I bought some offsets from Al Sharpton to lower my racial footprint.BTW to stay on subject John Bolton is a patriot. |
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....truthfirst is on to us! What will we do...?!
We will laugh at the batsh!it crazy little escapee from Shady Acres. Sheesh!
Neo is right, though, you libs are sounding weaker than usual on this thread. Sloandog nailed it...
We'll understand if you'd rather we all go to some other thread.....
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In the early 1980s Michael Jackson was one of the world’s most popular and talented African performers in entertainment. Jackson’s power and influence went beyond music however. There were white people, especially white children who listened to his music and secretly purchased his albums and attended his concerts.
This did not go unnoticed by the white U.S. government. Alarm grew in Washington, DC. At this time, Crack-Cocaine was being funneled into African neighborhoods throughout the U.S. by the CIA to poison a whole generation of Africans. President Ronald Reagan also wanted something done about the popularity of Michael Jackson. A secret meeting was convened to discuss options. An outright assassination was deemed too risky plus they did not want Jackson to be immortalized. They wanted him discredited and destroyed.
The decision they made was truly devious: Why not make Michael Jackson into a white person, a race traitor? The medical technology already existed and all they had to do was lure Jackson into a trap and that trap was the White House. So in 1984 Jackson was invited to visit the White House to be “honored” for his accomplishments. As you can see from the photo above, Jackson was a black African man at this time. But during his White House visit, an aggressive biological agent carrying a strain of vitiligo was put in his food and Jackson’s slow decline in a white hell started.
Today, another son of Africa threatens the white power structure and his name is Barack Obama. Is there any reason to think that he is not at risk from a devious white plot today?
http://african-in-america.blogspot.com/ |
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TruthFirst writes: Tuesday, May, 20, 2008 7:10 PM
Racist Attacks on Obama
It is almost amusing to see how the white power structure is fearful that a son of Africa will be their next President.
Arch says:
You despicable racist bigot TruthFirst. Nobody mentions race but you libtard. It is not Obammy's race that is being demonized but his yellow spineless ignorance of what an American should be. I would think that you intelligent libtards would refrain from trumping up the race baiting and call a stooge a stooge no matter what party he comes from but no, you have assumed that all people are as bigoted as you and as easily led as you libtards. Get a clue bat to the face, moron libtard! |
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did I write too fast for you? Bolton was put in that position to impress upon the UN we will not assume the position anymore.No diplomacy was needed,just unbending resolve and courage,things in short supply in Washington.I know alot of people here have the agenda of all republicans are bad but in this case your tunnel vison won't let you see a true patriot. |
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..maybe if you type it angrily enough, it will become true. Nahhhh. You guys are screwed--and by you own stupid devisings.. |
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No point in grasping what ain't true. Bolton and his colleagues weren't "cleaning up" for anyone. They directed policy based on naive and bone-headed assumptions, and those policies resulted in a strategic weakening of our country.
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With each passing day it is more & more getting through to me that B.Hussein O. is TOAST in November. Hell, he's TOAST now! Hillary's beating him by...what...40% in Kentucky. Yep, he's quite a steam roller. Operation Chaos has worked brilliantly! He'll be the nominee, but a damned lame one.
Also, with each passing day, the Kid is sounding more like a B- Sophomore Poli-Sci student. Kind of skin-crawly embarrassing. Lib friends of mine are beginning to look at their shoes or jitter when asked & challenged about him. Empty suit. NOT ready for Prime Time. Toast. Clueless TOAST.
Even the Lib-Left pantywaists here are sounding a tad tepid, don'tcha think? |
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Who's the schmuck tryin' to make it a racial issue?
Oh, Dr. Boyce Watkins of Syracuse University is weaving his hate and others are spewing this spate.
Jeremiah Wright, the racist, is there to make it appear to square.
The U.S. government distributing drugs to inner city blacks to keep them down.
The U.S. of KKK inventing AIDS to eradicate all of the black race.
Man, all of this race-baiting coming from the Left is so predictable.
Condi Rice, a rational voice who has some great foreign policy experience...Gee wiz, she's black.
Michael Steele, another who would bring some interesting energy...Oh yeah, he happens to be black.
Hey------truthfirst, go sell that "white guilt" which another black man, Shelbey Steele, wrote of.
You and your pathetic and pedantic crap. |
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Agreed, John Bolton would be a much better choice than Larry, Moe or Shemp. |
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The truth is here: http://african-in-america.blogspot.com
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I'll vote for Condi in a heartbeat. Try that crap somewhere else... |
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... in Oregon:
the "Decemberists", or,
The Obamaists? |
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It is almost amusing to see how the white power structure is fearful that a son of Africa will be their next President. |
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The Epitomy of a mainstream snakeoil salesman.
Man, this guy is gooooooooooooooooooooood... |
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The media touts Obama's Portland "rally" as drawing a crowd, "the size of a city", HOWEVER, the MSM states nowhere that there was big promotion of the opening act, the "Decemberists", a very popular regional musical act.
WHAT A LAUGH!
What is even funnier is that this group, DECEMBERISTS, is an apropos opening show for Obama, as namesake for the Bolshevik radicals who epitimize Obama's platform.
Yep, as I stated in earlier post----he is not STUPID, he is simply SLICK. And he has his followers as bamboozled as a snakeoil salesman. |
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They really are that stupid....!
You can almost see their beady little eyes roll up in their head like a dying fembot. They can't grasp the concept that Bolton was there to clean up after ....THEM. Just forget it....maybe read them a bedtime story about how Obama came along and slew the evil Republican.....pacifier? check! extra absorbant Pampers? Check and check! |
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..at strengthening our enemies. He was part of the blowhard leadership team that weakened America, perhaps for the decades to come. Which is why we need some grownups in there--to fix the damage caused by the likes of juveniles like Bolton.. |
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B-Rob,
If Bolton had been ineffective in promoting Bush's policies at the U.N., then the lefties would have wanted him to r-e-m-a-i-n there.
By the same token, when your favorite baseball team is facing a team with a pitcher who is having a lousy game, you hope that particular pitcher remains in the game so your team can continue to get hits off of him.
Bolton was effective in promoting Bush's policies---that's why the lefties wanted him gone. |
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B-Rob wrote;
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"Then you cite a failed ambassador as the sage on things relating to diplomacy?"
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John Bolton was VERY effective as our Ambassador to the U.N.---that's precisely why the internationalist lefties & American lefties loathe him.
Bolton was bringing about reforms at the U.N., and there are a lot of corrupt people feeding at the U.N. trough who resented having someone take their ice cream and cake taken away from them.
You really ought to check out Bolton's book, "Surrender is Not an Option."
B-Rob, even though you think surrender IS an option, Bolton's memoirs may change your mind about it.
:) |
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John Boltn was hired to kick a&& and take names and thats exactly what he did!The fact that he pisses you and the UN off proves he did a great job.If I had to walk down a dark alley I would want JB by my side,you can have Jimmy Carter.John Bolton may not be a great diplomat but he is a great American. |
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....and the President, wisely, told the fools in Congress who would rather play political games than protect this nation from terror they could stick it where the sun don't shine....
It was an inspired act by the President, and Bolton was perfect in the role: a plain-spoken, unashamed promoter of America first running rough-shod over the corrupt, America hating weasels in a corrupt, America-hating institution.
Everybody knew he would only be there on a temporary basis as the Congress got their knickers in a twist after getting sodomized like that.... The man was, and is, better than any lib anywhere..... |
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Now, gents, the Pres has many rights, but Bolton's appointment was done the way it was because Bolton would not have been approved by Congress, the usual way our democracy works. Bolton resigned because he would not have been re-hired. If you have a job, that's called being fired. Good thing, too: his neoconservative ideology was and is heading down the drain of history. His attack on Obama, who I do not support, is bitter grapes, and a typical Hewitt effort to attack a candidate - he hates McCain as well - from a defeated perspective. Ain't gonna be many rightwingers in office, come November. |
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Dudley,
Sorry, Dudley, but Bolton resigned---he was not "fired," and he did not engage in "misconduct of policy" as you allege.
The President had the Constitutional right to appoint him to be U.N. Ambassador.
Bolton did a fine job of pushing reform.
I realize there are a lot of people who do not want to see the U.N. reformed of its corruption and incompentence.
But I'm glad that you finally agree that Bolton has the right to criticize a candidate for elective office---just as you and I have the right to do so. |
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The Prez has the right to appoint Bolton the way he did. If I remember correctly the Dem/libs were going to leave the vacancy open indefinitely. On the sly - whatever. |
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Your Bolton history DISREGARDS--
that he was appointed on the sly,
that the Congress hated what he said as a rep (neoconservaive ideology) and fired him (allowed him to resign).
He can criticize who he wants |
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....but I'm gonna need a translator for that one....it's a little......what's the word....inchoherent.
Nevermind, I'll stick with dud. That fits you too.... |
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Paddy, fair enough! I'll call you DP from here on in.. No one's addicted to the truth, boyo; it comes in Confession.
Scar, Cotton got to register his johnson with the police before I listen anymore to him..
That ol' sun's comin' up! |
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Dudley wrote;
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"Imagine John Bolton, a man appointed in the dead of night, without bipartisan support, and fired from his job for misconduct of policy, criticizing a candidate for office."
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Dudley, John Bolton resigned from his job as U.N. Ambassador---he was not fired, nor did he engage in "misconduct of policy."
That is a lie.
But are you suggesting he does not have the right to criticize someone (Obama) running for elective office ?
Why does he not have the right ? |
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...will never be elected to any office because of his addiction to the truth. Telling truth is taboo in politics...
Dud, I have decided to call you Eb from now on because you remind me so much of that endearingly stupid "Green Acres" character. It fits.... |
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Cotton was being redundant in regards to the Dem/lib party being female... |
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Imagine John Bolton, a man appointed in the dead of night, without bipartisan support, and fired from his job for misconduct of policy, criticizing a candidate for office. Add his name to Bush conservative failure.
Cotton, let's You leave female and male out of this discussion, for all our benefits.
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does that not describe the white liberal female party's foreign policy for the last 45 years, theirs is a world view filled with fantasies, metaphors, theories, and flights of fancy, "if it sounds good, do it". |
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You really hit the mark with your suggestion of Bolton for Prez. I'm pretty sure he's good on immigration too! He'd be better than all three of these others put together. |
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CincyGuy,
Bolton did a fine job of pushing reforms on the financially corrupt, morally bankrupt United Nations.
He justly made adversaries among those who defended the corruption.
You ought to check out his book, "Surrender is Not an Option." |
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What was Bush's foreign policy experience in 2000? Hmmmmm? Anybody out there??? |
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Another one of those brilliant guys who's wrong about everything. An awful representative for our country. |
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John Bolton is the man.
...and I've always had a soft spot for his hit song, "Soul Provider." |
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....a guy like Bolton in the Oval Office to any of the three stooges we've been presented.... |
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http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=29677
John Bolton does look like the Walrus doesn't he.
Better this than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inviting Barack Obama to dinner. Then we would all be on the menu. |
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in the Obama administration I see! Nice. |
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Bolton is spot on in his opinion about Obama's ignorance in this arena.
Problem is, Liberals do not give a damn about this.
They simply love that veneer of "HOPE".
Leftists revel in the greasy film of, "CHANGE".
It's all wrapped up in that empty package, AKA, "FRESH".
That is what is all shiny and attractive to the Left. Well, that and their deep, deep, very deep seated hatred for anything resembling GWB. |
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Bolton is a very sharp guy.
But, Obama, he's playing us for fools.
Obama is either incredibly STUPID, or, he's as slick as another Dem president of not too long ago.
If one accepts him as STUPID;
He tells the republicans on some "good morning" show to "lay off my wife". Oh really, Mr. Obama. So, your wife can freely, on her own initiative, inject herself into the campaign---give speeches independent of her hubby, make incredible statements about only recently mustering any pride as an American, talk about some ridiculous, "Moving Bar" for Americans----and she should be impervious to, SCRUTINY or, CRITICISM herself.
Yeah, right...
Now, on the other hand, if one accepts him as the slick politician he has been revealing himself to be (i.e. his claims to not accepting money from, "lobbyists" when in fact he does, albeit more carefully. Or, his claims to not receiving money from "Big Oil", when he does---through the executives of the oil companies themselves---pretty slick). When he tells folks to lay off his spouse---he knows that when republicans went after Hillary in '92 and '96 after she too made herself very visible, that strategy did not work for the GOP. Barack knows this.
I believe he is more the typical "slick" politician and is hoping to goad the GOP into more of this banter against his wife. It would play perfectly into his desire to come off as the vistim. After all, he has played this Victicrat card rather well in recent past. |
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darn stern finger wags that Senator Tommy Harkin gave to McCain over the weekend. John, it seems, has TOO MUCH military experience of his own--and family lineage--to be qualified for C-in-C in Time of War. YIKES!
Yep, that's what the MC of the Wellstone Memorial Service Debacle said. Yessssiirrreeee, Tommy!
Scary what passes for a DemoRant Senator these days. |
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He has repeatedly made the same mistakes, over and over and over.
At some point, you just have to say that he doesn't understand.
And, again, he was and is wrong on Iraq, and Mr. Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran shouldn't be in charge of the Armed Forces. |
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"he clearly did not have a good grasp on the history of the United States in the 60’s. When Kennedy met Kruschev, it was in June of ’61. The Cuban Missile Crisis came in ’62."
Remember when you ignorantly made this same claim yesterday? Sure, the CMC brought us _closer_ to war, but we were _always_ on the brink with the USSR. And it was a combination of strength and diplomacy that brought us back a few steps, by the way. |
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I want an adult pursuing our country's foreign policy not a community organizer taking his foreign policy view for test drives.
William Safire recently had a nice On Language column about misspeaking that we all do. The errors that you mention fall in an innocuous category of what Mr. Safire calls "thinkos." We all make them, and I'm quite certain John McCain knows the difference between Sunni and Shi'a and so forth. Here's the link to the Safire column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/magazine/04wwln-safire-t. html?scp=5&sq=Safire+language&st=nyt |
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Barrack Quayle. Embarrasingly unqualified to run for President. I wonder what it could be that keeps the Dem/libs from admitting it? hmmmmmmm |
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This will be a tricky issue for the Rs this fall, as John McCain has REPEATEDLY shown he doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'a, and is unaware that al Qaida is strictly Sunni.
Experience doesn't equal wisdom, and in 2003 Barack Obama had the wisdom to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq and McCain lacked that wisdom, and he now lacks the wisdom to get U.S. troops out quickly, though he does now favor a timetable. |
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