I hope not. He is brilliant and decent. This women was at State for a short time and is now off the federal payroll. If we chuck such excellent people at the first failing we will continue to be stuck with dummies.(You do understand the bureaucracy there—corrupt and overpaid—was looking for anything to flay him with.)
He’s certainly decent to his Muslim girlfriend. Now the chickens are coming home to roost and I am not surprised it’s come about this way. Unfortunate, but he should have stuck by his principles and not gone seeking the good opinion of leftists. They had the long knives out for him no matter what he did to appease them and the results speak for themselves. He’s a tragic case, in the true sense, his desperate desire for approval of liberals - all his anticorruption rhetoric, all his bowing down to Africa, all his politicking in Mexico against the US border wall playing to the Mexican peanut gallery, all his efforts to snobbishly distance himself from the people who gave him jobs in the White House or who did anything nice for him as rightwingers, have not earned him any goodwill from liberals. Instead, they go after him with a vengeance when all he’s doing is nothing worse than anything Kofi did. Unlike Kofi, he didn’t have the social capital to be shameless. His desire for the good opinion of liberals has been the chink in his own armor that has felled him, a true Greek tragedy. He should have gone after them with baseball bat like Giuliani with no desire for their good opinion as he thwacked them. He also should not have given the Muslim girlfriend all that free money for nothing of value. He was, in a way, too nice to the wrong people. Now it’s a scary maelstorm.
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Do you really believe that a posting at State isan endorsement? Riza is a globally recognozed uber-liberal feminist.
Could have easily been written by a liberal. Either Conservatives hold their own to higher standards than liberals or just forget about it. Paul has to go - or we might as well nominate Hilary as the GOP too.
The man did not do very well in Iraq. This is strike two. Will he land on his feet within this administration?
The latest account I have - will try to find it - says that the Muslim Girlfriend is still on the world bank payroll though it sounds like she’s not working anywhere at all. What a gig, money for nothing and the chick is free. Nice work if you can get it
I kind of pity her, what will become of her, she certainly wasn’t a person of any noticeable merit. She’s going down Lewinsky road. And I hear she’s not even his girlfriend anymore. But she sought an advantage her coworkers didn’t have because of her big boyfriend and frankly, she deserves her troubles.
Decent? Hardly. Brilliant? Questionable, considering he didn’t think his every move would be scrutinized.
If they were looking for something to flay him with, he shouldn’t have given them such an easy time of it.