Posted on 04/16/2008 7:23:17 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
"Bolton Derangment Syndrome"
Yeah, and it looks like you have a serious case of IDOSS (inability to detect obvious sarcasm syndrome).
There, that is my opinion and you can trash me all you want! And yes, you have the right to your opinion too. But much of what some of you Bush-bashers say reveals much more about you than you know. A lot more than it does about us so-called “Bush-bots”! If saying this makes me a “Bush-bot”, then so be it!
Always include the “/sarc off” tag.
No.
The only positive things I can point to about the President these days is that he has kept his pants on in the Oval Office (unlike his predecessor), the tax cuts were good public policy, and Roberts and Alito are on the SCOTUS.
But we do America no service to blindly support a President who is failing to carry out his Oath of Office, and selling out friends and allies while failing to take effective action against our enemies, beyond running his mouth (because talk is cheap).
As I’ve said many times, George W. Bush would have been a great VP for *President* Dick Cheney, because GWB simply wasn’t ready for prime time in 2000, and these coming crumbling months of his Administration are going to validate that.
Go ahead and engage in your mindless hero worship, that says PLENTY about you and your fellow BushBots, and that’s exactly what you are.
BTTT
No bitching or whining, just amusement at some FReeper's hair triggers and emotional outbursts.
Never said that was the reason for the post but your continued excited and overwrought posts proves that it sure did work for that purpose.
Your bandwidth wasting reference glares as pure projection.
Bush is proving to be a complete loony tune. Swinging in the wind.
Bolton tells it like it is devastatingly:
Indeed, the North will not even make the declaration it earlier agreed to, but merely "acknowledge" that we are concerned about reports of such activities – which the United States itself will actually list. By some accounts, the North Korean statement will not even be public. In exchange for this utter nonperformance, the North will be rewarded with political "compensation" (its word): Concurrent with its "declaration," it will be removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism and freed from the Trading With the Enemy Act. President Bush has repeatedly told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley not to make him look weak on North Korea. If the president accepts the deal now on the table, things will be far worse than that.
You might want to look again at the eulogy he delivered at Reagan's funeral. But discounting that, where such indirect comparison may have been inevitable, this is more than a casual research project I'm afraid, just going to Google only turns up lefty sources such as the Young Turks, and an article from the Nation and Joseph Nye Is Bush our Woodrow Wilson?which alludes to specific comments made by Bush implying a positive self-comparison.
Note, the actual cites themselves are not included therein.
In view of the minimal evidence of Bush's own public self-comparison, the issue then devolves really into what he is saying of himself privately. And from that, we can make reasonable inferences. He has surrounded himself with supporters (notably not Reagan Administration conservatives themselves) who make the comparisons constantly and often. This is provable. Indeed, overwhelmingly so.
If he is not encouraging it (the comparison), the evidence that he is discouraging it is sadly non-existent from what I have observed. This speaks volumes.
H'mmm. That's what they said about Ronald Reagan, Caspar Weinberger, James Watt, Alan Keyes, and on, and on.
The loose cannons often get it right.
Not so. He is not getting it right.
Your insights on North Korea have always been sound. I have also speculated we will see a hot war with North Korea and this would likely be the true flashpoint to WWIII. What it does by removing trade restrictions is to allow North Korea to buy food. Perhaps the President feels that they will use there limited funds on food for there huge standing army in light of shortages. This of course is not wise, North Korea will continue building nuclear material and selling it on the black market and will keep the population half starved. Eventually something will give and Kim will have a choice to lose power or attack the South. Beyond unbelievable.
Why do you consider Bolton a loose cannon?
I back the President as well but disagree with you deeply on this issue. Appeasement has failed since Madeline Albright first brought Kim a basketball. North Korea was caught proliferating nuclear material to the Middle East.
The only purpose for your post #11 is clearly what you stated it to be. Now that we’ve settled that, “get a life”.
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