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gilliam
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Mark Steyn’s Chicago Sun-Times column: "Bolton’s just too hip for scaredy-cat Dems."
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Catholicvegan
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Bush shouldn’t nominate someone to represent us in an organization he doesn’t think exists.
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gilliam
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Bolton simply said he didn’t think the nations in the UN were united. And, you know, he is right, they are not united. They all are in it for their nation’s self interest. And I doubt that will ever really change.
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geezerbob
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With a few exceptions, they seem to be fairly well united against the US.
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Thekla
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Bolton’s Hair: No Brush With Greatness
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 15, 2005; Page C01
John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, desperately needs a haircut. It does not have to be a $600 Sally Hershberger cut. Bolton simply needs the basics. Tidy the curling, unruly locks at the nape of his neck, tame the volume at the crown, reel in the wings flapping above his ears, and broker a compromise between his sand-colored mop and his snow-colored mustache.
He needs to do this, not because he should be minding the recommendations of men’s fashion magazines or grooming experts but because when he settled in before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week to answer questions about his record, his philosophy and his intentions at the U.N., he looked as though he did not even have enough respect for the proceedings to bother combing his hair – or, for that matter, straightening his tie, or wearing a shirt that did not put his neck in a chokehold. Bolton was one wrinkled suit away from being an insolent mess.
media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I55195-2005Apr14 John Bolton cut an unfashionable figure on Capitol Hill. (Jason Reed - Reuters)
These are not flaws or imperfections of nature. This is not a cruel attempt to hold an everyday man to the standards of an airbrushed model or a nipped and tucked actor. This is a matter of personal style.
Bolton sat across from his questioners with a thick, dull slab of hair positioned diagonally across his forehead. It is tempting to say that he has a sloppy schoolboy’s haircut, but that would malign studious young men and suggest that they are dismissive of propriety and the importance of making a good public impression. Looking back to Bolton’s school days at Yale, one notices that he was better groomed in his younger years. In his 1970 class book photo, Bolton essentially has the same haircut, but his locks are not drooping over his forehead as if he’d stepped from the shower and shaken his hair dry in the manner of an Afghan hound. His tie also appears to be straight. Thirty-five years ago, his shirt fit. (Perhaps it is the same shirt?
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By Robin GivhanFriday, April 15, 2005; Page C01
John Bolton, President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, desperately needs a haircut. It does not have to be a $600 Sally Hershberger cut. Bolton simply needs the basics. Tidy the curling, unruly locks at the nape of his neck, tame the volume at the crown, reel in the wings flapping above his ears, and broker a compromise between his sand-colored mop and his snow-colored mustache.
He needs to do this, not because he should be minding the recommendations of men’s fashion magazines or grooming experts but because when he settled in before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week to answer questions about his record, his philosophy and his intentions at the U.N., he looked as though he did not even have enough respect for the proceedings to bother combing his hair – or, for that matter, straightening his tie, or wearing a shirt that did not put his neck in a chokehold. Bolton was one wrinkled suit away from being an insolent mess.
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http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/globalnav/images/spacer.gifBolton sat across from his questioners with a thick, dull slab of hair positioned diagonally across his forehead. It is tempting to say that he has a sloppy schoolboy’s haircut, but that would malign studious young men and suggest that they are dismissive of propriety and the importance of making a good public impression. Looking back to Bolton’s school days at Yale, one notices that he was better groomed in his younger years. In his 1970 class book photo, Bolton essentially has the same haircut, but his locks are not drooping over his forehead as if he’d stepped from the shower and shaken his hair dry in the manner of an Afghan hound. His tie also appears to be straight. Thirty-five years ago, his shirt fit. (Perhaps it is the same shirt?
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Catholicvegan
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Gilliam,
Need I quote him? “There is no such thing as the United Nations.” “You could take away 10 floors and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
Just the man I want representing me there!
Need I quote him? “There is no such thing as the United Nations.” “You could take away 10 floors and it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
Just the man I want representing me there!
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mjdonnelly
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The UN appears to be mostly useless. They can’t enforce their own policies, too much corruption, and any chance of them doing something would collapse if we started to refuse supporting them with troops, etc.
There are some things they have done to help like certain police actions, but those are also mainly supported by US troops. If there are no fly zones, economic sanctions, etc. that have penalties associated with breaking them, those penalties need to be enforced instead of continually backing up.
There are some things they have done to help like certain police actions, but those are also mainly supported by US troops. If there are no fly zones, economic sanctions, etc. that have penalties associated with breaking them, those penalties need to be enforced instead of continually backing up.
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jlw
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Yeah, actually, you’re right. *he is.
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