2012 Watch: Bolton considering a presidential run?

[Trampled Underfoot]

I thought this was a joke at first. This would be almost as entertaining as Palin. This guy is awesome when he gets pissed.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/30/2012-watch-bolton-considering-a-presidential-run/

(CNN) ? John Bolton, the controversial former United Nations Ambassador under President George W. Bush, is suggesting he may consider a run for the presidency in an effort to highlight national security issues.

In an interview with the conservative website The Daily Caller published Monday, Bolton ? who himself has never sought federal office and is not considered to be among the long list of Republicans considering a 2012 bid ? wouldn't explicitly rule out a presidential run.

"In the sense that I want to make sure that not only in the Republican Party, but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States," he said when asked if he would consider a run. "You know, as somebody who writes Op-Eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that? there is a limit to what that accomplishes. Whereas, some governor from some state in the middle of the country announces for president they get enormous coverage even if their views are utterly uninformed on major issues."

Currently a Fox News commentator and senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Bolton was appointed to U.N. Ambassador in August 2005 in a recess appointment. Bolton, who once quipped, "There are 38 floors to the UN building in New York - if you lost 10 of them, it wouldn't make a bit of difference," resigned in December of 2006 when it was clear the Senate - set to become Democratically-controlled in 2007 - was not going to confirm him.

"I'm obviously not a politician I've never run for any federal elective office at all and, you know, it is something that would obviously require a great deal of effort," Bolton also told the Daily Caller. "What I do think, though, and what concerns me, is the lack of focus generally in the national debate about national security issues. Now, I understand the economy is in a ditch and people are concerned about it, but our adversaries overseas are not going to wait for us to get our economic house in order."

 

[Duff Miver]

Now there's a debate that would be worth watching - Bolton/Palin/Huckleberry/Tancredo/Brownback/DeMint.

Can you say "clusterfuck"?

 

[Lumi]

Now there's a debate that would be worth watching - Bolton/Palin/Huckleberry/Tancredo/Brownback/DeMint.

Can you say "clusterfuck"?

You left out the "Perfect Hair" Candidate, Mitt

Or fluster cluck ?

Let these chuckle heads pound the shit out of each other while one of the Pauls sit back and collects the "TRUE Tea Party" Vote

 

[Terryray]

Let these chuckle heads pound the shit out of each other while one of the Pauls sit back and collects the "TRUE Tea Party" Vote

RP recent opined:

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined. 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/27/a_tea_party_foreign_policy

 

[Duff Miver]

RP recent opined:

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined. 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/27/a_tea_party_foreign_policy

You tell 'em, Ron.

 

[Trench]

RP recent opined:

As many frustrated Americans who have joined the Tea Party realize, we cannot stand against big government at home while supporting it abroad. We cannot talk about fiscal responsibility while spending trillions on occupying and bullying the rest of the world. We cannot talk about the budget deficit and spiraling domestic spending without looking at the costs of maintaining an American empire of more than 700 military bases in more than 120 foreign countries. We cannot pat ourselves on the back for cutting a few thousand dollars from a nature preserve or an inner-city swimming pool at home while turning a blind eye to a Pentagon budget that nearly equals those of the rest of the world combined. 

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/27/a_tea_party_foreign_policy

Obviously, Ron Paul is Howard Zinn's second biggest fan, second only to yours truly... :0008

 

[Trampled Underfoot]

Obviously, Ron Paul is Howard Zinn's second biggest fan, second only to yours truly... :0008

I'm going to watch "The Corporation" tonight. I've been meaning to see it forever. I think Zinn is in it. What a loss.

 

[Terryray]

I'm sure RP ain't not much of a Zinn fan! Any ol' libertarian like RP, while he would appreciate Zinn's tour of U.S. government crimes (both real and imagined), would laugh at the childish notion that more power to goverment is the solution--rather than small goverment, transparency and competition.

Not to mention Zinn's Blame America First mentality, his utter contempt for not just any US president, but all of mankind's "civilizations" (as Zinn was always fond of putting in quotes). Tho he has singled out very rare praise for Cuba...

Anyway, how could any person familiar with the details of US history think much of Zinn as a historian? The famous demolition of Zinn by Harvard University professor Oscar Handlin, in a review of the big book--"the deranged quality of his fairy tale, in which the incidents are made to fit the legend, no matter how intractable the evidence of American history." -- should be enough.

look at how fine leftist historians treat Zinn:

Sean Wilentz writing of the "balefully influential works of Howard Zinn."

Michael Kazin said Zinn "educes the past to a Manichean fable and makes no serious attempt to address the biggest question a leftist can ask about U.S. History: why have most Americans accepted the legitimacy of the capitalist republic in which they live??....and on the famous book "bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions."

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. said "I don't take him very seriously. He's a polemicist, not a historian."

 

[Trench]

I'm sure RP ain't not much of a Zinn fan! Any ol' libertarian like RP, while he would appreciate Zinn's tour of U.S. government crimes (both real and imagined), would laugh at the childish notion that more power to goverment is the solution--rather than small goverment, transparency and competition.

To imply that Howard Zinn, of ALL people, was for centralized government power, government secrecy and against idividual rights, reveals your complete lack of knowledge of his ideology and writings.

Not to mention Zinn's Blame America First mentality,

Like most righties, you seem incapable of even comprehending the motivation of someone who criticizes the actions (past and present) of their own country. It has nothing to do with "blame" and everything to do with wanting to make the country you love, live up to the promise of the Constitution and ideals it was founded upon.

Anyway, how could any person familiar with the details of US history think much of Zinn as a historian?

It's true... Zinn's writings and lectures are much too painful to the ear of flag-waving neoconservative pseudo-patriots.

look at how fine leftist historians treat Zinn:

Small wonder some "historians" would criticize the works of Howard Zinn, since no one in recent history has exposed the myopic and ethnocentric writings of your beloved "textbook historians" more than Howard Zinn has.

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