Catkiller Frist: Bolton a "smart, principled, straightforward candidate"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3524

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan welcomed Bolton's appointment and steered clear of the controversy over whether Bolton would be weakened by the recess appointment. "We look forward to working with him as I do with the other 190 ambassadors, and we will welcome him at a time when we are in the midst of major reform," Annan said. He said the manner of Bolton's appointment was Bush's prerogative.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Bolton was a "seriously flawed and weakened candidate." He charged that Bush "chose to stonewall the Senate" by using a recess appointment.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said, "The president did the right thing by sending Mr. Bolton to the U. N. He is a smart, principled and straightforward candidate, and will represent the president and America well on the world stage."

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., sharply criticized the move. "It's a devious maneuver that evades the constitutional requirement of Senate consent and only further darkens the cloud over Mr. Bolton's credibility at the U.N," Kennedy said."

[Fenris]

1. "smart, principled,straightforward" - and that qualifies him how?

[PurityOfEssence]

2. PRINCIPLED?! This guy's a ham-fisted, red-faced thug

The very idea that he's being used as a diplomat is ridiculous. This has to be the worse casting than Kenneth Brannagh as FDR.

[flordehinojos]

3. Frist is no George Washington-- he CAN tell many lies & kiss bush's

derriere at will... frist's words impress me as much as those of any clown in a two bit circus.