The enemy within (Sidney Blumenthal alert)

The Guardian ^ | March 10, 2005 | Sidney Blumenthal

[MNnice]

Sydney is such a hand-wringing wimp.

[America's Resolve]

Yup. Hearing Sid talk about Mr. Bolton like this, makes Bolton my kinda guy!

[M Kehoe]

And those ballots from Miami-Dade were not counted.

Ol' Sidney is correct. The ballots weren't counted a FOURTH TIME.

I know Blumenthal reads FR, so bite me Sid. You're a dickhead. You've been a dickhead all your life.

Oh, and Sid, have you quit beating your wife?

5.56mm

[Congressman Billybob]

"Squid" Blumenthal always beging with a slimy lie. Then his writing goes quickly downhill from there. Good to see he's true to form.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Death in a Courtly Manner"

[KarlInOhio]

[Bolton] was behind the renunciation of the US signature on the 1998 Rome statute creating the international criminal court. He described sending his letter notifying the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, as "the happiest moment of my government service".

I love this man!

[Peach]

So we'll put Sid in the column of: Supports rape and pedophilia by UN officials.

[aculeus]

Americanist

Definition: an American government official who puts America's interests ahead of other countries. Synonym: Republican. Antonym: Democrat.

[nopardons]

This sticking in wee Sidney's craw..........BAD! I couldn't be happier and the president could NOT have picked a better man to go to the UN for us.

[oldbrowser]

Bolton is a specimen of the "primitives", as Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson called the unilateralists and McCarthyites of the early cold war.

When I read that sentence the one word that came to my mind is "cloning".

[Shermy]

Memo to Sid:

SEEK PSYCHIATRIC HELP

[AdamSelene235]

Bolton is a specimen of the "primitives", as Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson called the unilateralists and McCarthyites of the early cold war. Through his political integration into the neocon apparatus, Bolton might be properly classified a neoprimitive.

Excellent!!!

[sevry]

I'm with RWR. Blumenthal? The GUARDIAN?

Yawn!

[tertiary01]

Panties in a wad bump

[CyberAnt]

You can't get more elitist snob than that!! LOL!

But I loved this statement: "Bolton made a play to become deputy secretary of state after the 2004 election, but was blocked by Condoleezza Rice, who understood that his love of bureaucratic infighting would have undermined her authority." What a load of crock is that ..??

ROTFLOL! The reason Condi didn't promote him to Deputy was because the President had already tapped him for the UN (which Condo knew) - and Bush didn't need another bull dog at the State Dept - he already had Condi!

What I'm not sure of is where did he get some of his information .. or was he making it up. And .. I loved the name calling .. he had a name for everything. Americanist indeed! It's obvious Sydney is not one of them.

[PGalt]

I agree wholeheartedly Sidney. YOU ARE THE ENEMY WITHIN.

[Lancey Howard]

Wow! I didn't know that much about Bolton, but if half of what Blumenthal says here is somewhat true, then I am definitely a John Bolton fan. Another great nomination by Bush.

[mcenedo]

Happened to hear Rush's take on this in the 5 minutes I was driving back from the deli:

Look at who is against this guy: NYSlime, 'Rats in general, CNN, etc - just from this, ya gotta love the guy.

[afropick]

He makes that sounds as if that is a bad thing Bolton done.

[afropick]

He makes that sounds as if that is a bad thing Bolton done.

[kcvl]

From Hillary's mouth to Sidney's typewriter.