"Ambassador" John Bolton

But don’t tell me that the United States Senate, which likes to be called the “the world’s greatest deliberative body” will vote to confirm President Bush’s pick of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

John Bolton has what conservatives used to call “book smarts.” He is a distinguished alumnus of a New Haven school that is the alma mater of both Presidents Bush, Yale, as well as of that same university’s law school.

He has a long record of federal appointments, including service as a U.S. assistant attorney general, assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, and from 2001 to 2005, as under secretary of state for arms control.

Bolton on paper has strong credentials. What John Bolton tragically lacks, according to the first-hand testimony of people who have worked with him, is the human touch or mature temperament so important in a colleague and so indispensable in a diplomat. (source)

Actually, I think that John Bolton has exactly what it takes to be an ambassador under the Bush Administration. He should fit in just perfectly.

He has the savvy to tell the United Nations that they are irrelevant, that it’s “our way or the highway”, and that everyone else on this planet (the little people) is somewhat, well, less than the important people (us).

I think he’s a perfect “ambassador” for this administration because he is the epitome of what they stand for. It’s very clear to me why President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to the United Nations. These two cookies are made from the same mold.

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