Posted on 11/29/2010 12:06:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton wrote an article in Standpoint on President Barack Obama and the 2010 elections, attacking the president on international issues and raising questions regarding the staffing of the administration.
While Bolton -- whose name has been floated as a possible candidate for the Republican presidential nomination -- focused on foreign policy, he did raise some interesting questions about the president’s economic team.
“With heavyweight economics advisers such as Christina Romer and former Harvard president Larry Summers already history, can the Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner be far behind?” asked Bolton. “Do other high-profile officials such as special envoys George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke really plan to carry on?
“Obama's first team is disappearing, replaced by pale imitations of real players,” insisted Bolton. “His lower staffing levels in the White House and State Department are more ideologically hard-core, thus perhaps presaging the more reflexive multilateralism favored by Obama's enduring European supporters. But for a president in potentially desperate domestic political trouble, kudos from Europeans will mean little.”
Bolton noted that he did not think that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was much of a factor in the Obama administration.
“The big Washington guessing game is whether Hillary Clinton will leave State, perhaps to challenge Obama for the 2012 Democratic nomination, despite her recent disavowals,” wrote Bolton. “Whether she exits or not, Mrs. Clinton has not been significant in major administration decisions and often seems uncomfortable with her portfolio, except for economic and social development issues. Nonetheless, she and her husband remain one of the Democrats' most astute political teams, and their political careers are far from over.”
John Bolton would make a PERFECT Sec State in a Palin Admin.
As much as I like Bolton, I don’t think he has the complete background necessary to be president. (Of course, the current “president” has even less.) His international relations resume would, however, make him a stellar candidate for Sec of State.
John Bolton 2012
I thought Bolton was a prime possibility for State as you say, but alas, Bolton has revealed himself to be a statist, and has little regard for the constitution or the 4th amendment.I now would not support him.
I suspect Bolton would imagine it the other way around.
Obama's 1st team consisted of imitators of something...certainly not smart money people.
He doesn’t have the following, charisma and popularity of Governor Palin, just as former Secretary Cheney vis a vis Governor Bush in 2000.
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I’d be happier with Cheney/Bush 2000
With Bolton as SOS how about Ollie North as Secretary of Defense?
NA I like Jed Babbin for Sec Def and
Mark Levin as Atty Gnl.
I felt the same way , Ron, I thought he was a better man than that.
John Bolton for dogcatcher.....and NOTHING else.
I see you looked where I pointed you....great work, and thanks very much for posting the link.
I usually get the on'off part right, but am just about useless after that when it comes to computers.
They were smart enough to take the money and run.
Neither did McCain but he didn't step aside and let Palin take the top spot.
Drinking while blogging produces just such a result.
YOU MUST BE THINKING BOUT Ol' 90 Million Dollar Franklin Raines of FHA fame ???
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