UN nominee derided by Democrats as 'damaged goods'

[Rose Siding]

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"I would hope the president would think a little longer about this," Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, told Fox. "He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility."

"This would be the first U.N. ambassador since 1948 we've ever sent there under a recess appointment. That's not what you want to send up, a person that doesn't have the confidence of the Congress," Dodd added.

A vote on the nomination of the outspoken conservative has been held up for months over accusations he tried to manipulate intelligence and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views in his post as the top U.S. diplomat for arms control.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada called Bolton a "flawed candidate" who may be trying to hide damaging information about his conduct.

"John Bolton is a person who, in his personal relationship with government employees, has been abominable, mean, unreasonable and bizarre. His not producing the papers we have requested only underscores the importance of why we need those papers. There must be something he's trying to hide," Reid told BuzzFlash.com, a news and commentary Web site.

Reuters

[MaineDem]

1. Excellent!

They should be saying this over and over again. Every Democrat should be singing this term "damaged goods" all over the media.

[Cocoa]

2. Reid could have been talking about Bolton's moustache

"abominable, mean, unreasonable and bizarre."

[NNN0LHI]

6. Or his wig n/t

[Straight Shooter]

3. "Damaged goods." Excellent framing.

"Something he's trying to hide."

Damn straight, Reid. Something very very big and monstrously ugly.

[warrens]

4. When he gets to the U.N. all the other ambassadors are going to be

Laughing at him, giving him wedgies, knocking his books out of his hands, giving him noogies, and short-sheeting his bed. He's a laughingstock.

[Richard Steele]

8. Yup! Just imagine the size of the 80-language "kick me" sign ! nm

[Bumblebee]

5. Great, much deserved plug for BuzzFlash to which many of us owe so much!

[Judi Lynn]

7. Dodd: Bolton Lacks Support for U.N. Post

Dodd: Bolton Lacks Support for U.N. Post
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer

Sunday, July 31, 2005

(07-31) 08:42 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Anticipating President Bush soon will appoint John Bolton as U.N. ambassador, a leading Democrat said Sunday that Bolton would go without the confidence of Congress.

"He's damaged goods. This is a person who lacks credibility," said Sen. Christopher Dodd, a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He said Bush should think again before using a recess appointment to place Bolton at the United Nations while the Senate is on its traditional August break.

That's not what you want to send up, a person who doesn't have the confidence of the Congress and so many people who've urged that he not be sent up to do that job," said Dodd, D-Conn., on "Fox News Sunday."

Bush left church on Sunday, a reporter shouted a question, asking whether the president would be appointing Bolton. Bush smiled and refrained from answering.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/07/31/national/w084224D38.DTL

[Warren Stupidity]

9. Good start

they forgot liar however. Democratic leaders are slowly starting to understand that the era of bipartisan politics ended 20 years ago.

[meganmonkey]

10. And hopefully the UN is starting to understand that the era of

the US bullying the whole world around ended too. So Bolton will be as useless as he should be.

Not that I am a huge fan of the UN, but someone has to put this administration in check and hopefully the UN can to some extent.

:shrug:

[WhiteTara]

11. I wish he would say these things to the msm

instead of to just a friendly.

[MaineDem]

12. "...Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, told Fox"

Fox is a friendly??

[WhiteTara]

13. actually, I meant Reid

:)