Romney surrogate slams Obama’s Libya response with homophobic slur

[DonViejo]

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and surrogate for presidential hopeful former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) John Bolton harshly criticized the Obama administration’s response to the violence in Benghazi, Libya earlier this month, calling the U.S. response “limp-wristed.”

The Bush appointee was speaking to Fox News on Friday when he used the homophobic insult, which, as Think Progress noted, is “usually used as a slur against or allusion to gay men” and to connote weakness.

“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,” Bolton alleged, “having a limp wristed reaction to the assassination of four American diplomats.”


Bolton was joining a group of Republican Senators and other officials condemning the Obama administration for its foreign policy in the Middle East.


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[bunnies]

1. John Bolton: Eternal Asshole. nt

[treestar]

2. Assholes in every way

They only wish Obama was weak, too. It's their dream, you know, the way everyone who opposes their unneeded wars is a coward - and yet who got bin Laden? They are such desperate, pathetic assholes.

[monmouth]

3. How much more of this crap will you posting tonight? I don't want to miss anything...n/t

[jenmito]

4. When a Romney surrogate was on MSNBC with Thomas Roberts and started going on

about how the Obama admin. really messed up in Benghazi and lied about what they knew, Thomas shut her down by saying, paraphrasing, "Well, the last administration started a war in the wrong country after 9/11, so I'd cut this admin. some slack." He then ended the segment and shut her up.

[monmouth]

5. Ouch!..n/t

[jenmito]

11. I know! I tweeted him a big THANK YOU. n/t

[DonViejo]

10. Roberts nailed that good!

[jenmito]

12. He sure did. Her name was Alice Stewart. n/t

[flamingdem]

6. That's shocking

Bolton is a grade A .. jerk

[zbdent]

7. If you're a Democrat, you are responsible for the remarks/actions of people whose sole

affiliation with you is that they accidentally rang your doorbell to deliver a pizza, and you gave them directions to the correct address.

If you're a Republican, you are not responsible for anything, even stuff you signed, notarized, and had blessed by the Pope.

[lunatica]

8. Bolton prefers his presidents to be Dicks!

Now that's a macho presidential response. Just lob those phallus shaped weapons and be truly Merican! Diplomacy is sooooo gayyyyy!

[Jennicut]

9. If there is an actual hell, two people will go to it for sure.

John Bolton and Dick Cheney. Cannot decide which is worse.

[mnhtnbb]

13. I'll take a limp wrist over weenie waving any day if it means defusing a situation and leading

to discussion rather than more killing.

[courseofhistory]

14. Right!

We should bomb the crap out of them per the neo-cons. Shock & awe! That's their solution to everything!