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Lacking any imagination (and letting its homobigot slip show), Team Mittens goes there… (Think Progress):
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton employed the term, usually used as a slur against or allusion to gay men, to describe the Obama administration’s response to the attacks in Libya earlier this month:
The US is viewed under Obama as weak, as Sen. McCain said, as declining in influence dramatically in the Middle East, pulling out of Iraq, intending to pull out of Aghanistan, having a limp wristed reaction to the assassination of four American diplomats.
They really can’t help themselves. The contempt, the bigotry — it’s not surprising that Bolton earns high praise from Mittens himself.
“John has been a staunch defender of U.S. interests and values, both while he was in and out of government … I look forward to consulting with him as we campaign to restore America’s standing abroad and ensure that this century is an American Century.”
And of course, juvenile homophobic references by an insecure Bolton pale in comparison to Mitt’s history of outright cruelty:
Many of today’s principals would be likely to throw the book at a student who pinned down a classmate and clipped his hair, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did as a high school senior in 1965.
Romney was not disciplined at the time. If such an attack happened in the public schools of 2012, it would probably lead to suspension and might also be referred for expulsion, a number of local school leaders said following a Washington Post report of the incident involving Romney.
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Pam, John Bolton is the epitome of John Bull diplomacy, a bull in a china closet and the worst thing that’s happened to the US image abroad since the Dick and Don and Dubya show.
But those “local school leaders” are laughable. RHIP, especially in schools! I’ve seen school boards and administrators scatter like quail at the prospect of a visit by Mrs. Smith (who while she had no more money than they did, she had an acid tongue, a keen insight, and a will of iron.)
Maybe Mitt would not get away clean; not so much now as then. But maybe it’s the other way round. I’m inclined to believe the latter.
“John has been a staunch defender of U.S. interests and values…”
Except when it came time to serve as a defender in Vietnam. The Chickenhawk who never served, is more than willing to send other people’s kids to fight and die in foreign wars.
Everytime I see one of these neocons quoted I cannot help but think about their non service to the country they protest to love so much.
Like Mitt when it was his time to serve, he opted for the good life in France.
““John has been a staunch defender of U.S. interests and values, …“
but if ever there is a conflict between interests and values, let interests prevail.
I guess that whole blackitty-black-black thing was not doing the job for them so they had to throw in some gay baiting to sweeten the pot.
Obama is killing an adequate number of people from where most stupid liberals, and apparently Americans, sit. Bolton, meanwhile, is one of the saddest, silliest, stupidest compensatory limpdick white boys that ever rode into Washington. Just the kind of goofy ass mofo, top to bottom, who breaks into a sweat riding through a bad nabe, even in a limo. The fact that. . . flotsam of this caliber rises to the top of the barrel for the Republicans is clear evidence of their intellectual bankruptcy. Saturday morning in-fill, even for Fox News.
I actually attended the same military prep school as this PoS. If I’d known him then or had an inkling of what he would become, he wouldn’t be the public figure he has become. The school still refuses to condemn him or acknowledge his obvious mental illness.
BWAHAHAHAHahahahahahha
thats hilarious coming from a man who needed to drag his women to PLATOS RETREAT to get a stiiiiifffffy!
John Bolton! “Threat or menace?” real hair or fake moustache? Vice versa? I like his brother’s music though. All kidding aside, isn’t it “John Bolton” war criminal in the same sense that Von Ribbentrop was a war criminal. Not brave enough to carry a gun but cowardly enough cheerleader it.
But he surely looks old; have not seen a pic in a while. Not that age is a bad thing, but he looks weary and very, very, old. A bit surprising.