Raw Story: Kerry hammers new UN pick as "baggage we cannot afford"

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3/7/2005
Exclusive: Senator Kerry hammers new UN pick as “baggage we cannot afford”
Kerry slashes Bush’s new UN pick; Reid offers more muted critique
RAW STORY

In a release issued this afternoon, former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) said President Bush’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations was “baggage we cannot afford,” RAW STORY has learned.

“I recognize John Bolton’s long service to our country, but this is just about the most inexplicable appointment the President could make to represent the United States to the world community,” Sen. Kerry will assert.

“If the President is serious about reaching out to the world, why would he choose someone who has expressed such disdain for working with our allies?” Kerry will tell the press.

“Mr. Bolton once said ‘if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.’ Mr. Bolton once celebrated our failure to win the U.N.’s support for the Iraq invasion as ‘further evidence to many why nothing more should be paid to the U.N. system.’ Now we’re supposed to believe he’s the right person to represent the United States at the United Nations?”
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[Dave Reynolds]

1. I have to agree with Kerry

on this one. I had not researched Bolton, it does sound from this article that he may be the worst person for the job.

[Igel]

2. Popcorn and lawnchair time. n/t

[Me.]

4. I'm With You There

A lot of things seem to have possibility to pop forward right now and this one sure has loads of potential.

[GetTheRightVote]

3. I am calling Kerry & Reid, they appear to being a great job !!!

:kick:

[Skip Intro]

5. I don't understand why Kerry's remarks aren't MSM headlines -

he was almost President.

Less than six months ago.

Why wouldn't the MSM report such harsh criticism coming from bush's recent oponnet?

[On the Road]

6. Bolton is Behind the Fiasco in North Korea

Which went from the Nobel-Peace-Prize status under the sunshine process to hostility, isolation, and acceleration of the nuclear weapons program. Failure is rewarded again in this administration.

I've hear Bolton interviewed. He's a toady and an ass. So much for Bush's so-called overtures to the rest of the world. This man's job is to make the world hate us.

[buzzard]

7. Much like Condi. n/t

[jojo54]

8. Why do I get the funny feeling that Bolton is a plant?

We all know that Clinton is to be Kofi Annan's successor next year, so what's keeping the smirking chimp from planting someone like the dirty bastard that Bolton is to "keep an eye" on Bill? Maybe try to come up with some other kind of smear shit because they're afraid of how Hillary will rise in popularity over the next 3 years??

[wisteria]

9. You can sense the frustration in John Kerry's words.

Another great Bush choice. I suppose for Bush, the only litmus test is loyalty. Qualifications and appropriate job placement mean nothing.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. But Chertoff is baggage we can afford.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00010

It's just weird where he picks his battles. :shrug:

Chertoff- Yea
Michael H. Schneider, Sr- NV
Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington- NV
Diane S. Sykes- NV
David G. Campbell- NV
Frank Montalvo- NV
Samuel Der- NV
Victor J. Wolski- NV
Richard C. Wesley- Yea
Consuelo Maria Callahan- NV
Rice- Nay
Gonzales- Nay
S.Maurice Hicks, Jr.- NV
Deborah L. Cook- NV
Cormac J. Carney- NV
Bolton- ???
ETC...


Could we get a little advise and consent here?