Bolton Fearmongers: ‘Best Outcome’ Of Obama Presidency Is ‘More Embassy Bombings, WTC Attacks’
Bolton Fearmongers: ‘Best Outcome’ Of Obama Presidency Is ‘More Embassy Bombings, WTC Attacks’
Yesterday, Fox News’s John Gibson hosted former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on his radio show. They discussed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) foreign policy. Bolton charged that “the best outcome” of an Obama presidency would be “a replay of the Clinton administration,” meaning “more embassy bombings” and “more World Trade Center attacks”:
GIBSON: The Obama team is going back to some of the old complaints about the war and the war on terror…that the left has been articulating for a long time now, and not really coming up with anything new.
BOLTON: Yeah I think honestly that’s an optimistic view of it, that it will simply be a replay of the Clinton administration. It will simply have more embassy bombings, more bombings of our warships like the Cole, more World Trade Center attacks. That would be the best outcome from that perspective.
Listen to it:
Of course, Bolton does not mention that the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon occurred during the Bush administration, while Bolton was serving in the Department of State.
Bolton also reminded Gibson that the entire world — “from responsible democratic governments to the terrorists themselves” — is following our election closely, adding, “Everything that Obama is saying today is registering very intensely among those who wish us no good.”
Earlier this election season, Bolton declared that “the mullahs in Tehran” want a Democrat to win the presidency in 2008. What’s more, Bolton’s comments hardly exist in isolation — nor are they even the most egregious examples of right-wing fearmongering. Here are a few more examples:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ): All I can tell you Jennifer [Rubin] is that I think it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. … If Senator Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly.”
Rep. Steve King (R-IA): “The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida … would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror” if Obama won the presidency.
Max Boot: “[T]he implication is that Iran’s top terrorist is hoping that Americans will elect Barack Obama this fall.”
Bolton’s scare tactics represent a tried-and-true election strategy for the right wing.
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Will those be “better” or “worse” than the 9/11 tragedy that happened on their “watch”?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:50 pmBolton charged that “the best outcome” of an Obama presidency would be “a replay of the Clinton administration,” meaning “more embassy bombings”…
– - Maybe Obama can find you an embassy to run somewhere, John.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:52 pmNo presidency (not even Reagan’s) has been better for the mullahs in Iran than that of George W. Bush.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pmEvery day is Opposite Day for the Republicans. In reality, their policies are the best thing that ever happened to al Qaeda.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pmI…am…so…scared!!! I cannot believe that anyone wouldn’t take this seriously!!! Oh…my…GOD!!! If Obama is elected, the sky will fall. Lessee…the Repugs tried this is 2004 and it was a whopping success, so why not try it again, just to dust off the strategy!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pmBOLTON: Yeah I think honestly that’s an optimistic view of it, that it will simply be a replay of the Clinton administration. It will simply have more embassy bombings, more bombings of our warships like the Cole, more World Trade Center attacks. That would be the best outcome from that perspective.
Sure, that would be the best outcome from the Republican perspective.
For the American perspective, not so much.
But we can’t have Americans getting killed by the thousands like happened all through the Clint… wait a minute — isn’t he describing the Bush administration??
June 19th, 2008 at 2:54 pmI don’t think I want to be taking advice from the guy that wanted to lop off the top 10 floors of the United Nations.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pmAlejandro Says:
No presidency (not even Reagan’s) has been better for the mullahs in Iran than that of George W. Bush.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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Seriously. They’ve got $135/barrel oil, that they’re selling in Euros, and they didn’t even have to lift a finger.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWe Americans are to SMART to be FOOLED again by fear mongering — aren’t we?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pmGee, isnt that what happened under the current administration?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pmDidn’t they say the same things two years ago? If they were right, wouldn’t we have already seen such things? Aren’t the only people who believe this bullshit already voting for McCain?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pmSo the war on terror, isnt working? Is that what Bolton is saying? Why the gall of this man to question our commander in chiefs tactics!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 2:57 pmOh…as you can see…the embassy bombings and the Cole bombing did happen under the Clinton Administration. It was only the REALLY big Kahuna that happened under Bush, but we don’t want to remind ‘the folks’ about those pesky details.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:57 pmBooga-Booga-Booga! The Scary Guys are Coming to Get You! I’ve heard of one trick ponies, but this is Absurd! At least this time they’re coming straight out and saying it! And somebody should tell the Walrus that the World Trade Center doesn’t exist any more. The war on Terror is a war against a Concept, not a physical nation-state. It calls for non-traditional methods of fighting. It doesn’t call for invasions on nations, nor for converting the USA into a police state. Here’s hoping that We, the People, realise that and ignore this….individual.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:57 pmImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
And these guys think Americans are uninformed idiots….oh forgot, never mind.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pmSo will Bolton be disappointed if there are no embassy bombings on Obama’s watch? Remember how those of us who didn’t agree with the Iraq invasion have been accused of hoping things didn’t go well there so that we would be vindicated?
Aside from the fact that apparently Bolton isn’t aware that the WTC doesn’t exist anymore (putz), if he thinks that embassy and warship attacks are the “best outcome” of an Obama administration, what does he think is the WORST that can happen?!
But, hang on, why do I care what that the evil man thinks?
June 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pmYeah, Reid and his underwhelming counterpart Pelosi just signed on to the telecom capitulation. No wonder the Democrats aren’t having better poll numbers. They just keep doing what Bush wants. Does Bush have some consigliere out there with a gun at Reid’s mother’s head?
June 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pmWhereas if McCain wins, we get $10/gallon gas, another war started, a broken military, a broken economy, a gap between the haves and have-nots in this country so wide we look like a banana republic, China owning most of what we have, and the entire world banding together to take us out because they look at us like a rabid dog that must be destroyed.
But if Obama wins, I won’t be safe? Something tells me I’m not going to be any more safe with McCain and his puppeteers at the helm.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pmBolton should be arrest for baseless comments like that!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pmAll the Repugs are good at is fear. Fear teh Gays! Fear teh Furreners! Fear teh Taxes!!! Fear teh Grandma trying to vote!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:01 pmO.K. The Reich has already decided that Obama will expose us to:atheism, immorality, communism, lycanthropy, Islam, black racism, Ebonics, white racism, radical black Christianity, free-love, unilateral disarmament, abortion, vegetarianism, mopery and dopery, gay marriage, polygamy, pacifism, bestiality, voodoo, pedophilia, misogyny, miscegenation, kiddie-porn, socialism, globalization, isolationism, crippling taxes and foreign languages. Ya’ just knew they couldn’t leave terrorism off the list.
Seriously though. How is what Bolton do legally different than yelling FIRE! in the proverbial theater? And the neocons b!tch about “leftists” ruining morale? Puh-leeease!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pmRepublicans manipulate politics by using fear.
That, by definition, makes them terrorists.
Bush and bin Laden have the same goals.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pmBolton looks like a walrus that didn’t clean up after itself after suckling at it’s mama’s teat.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:03 pmOops! “what Bolton does”
June 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pmBOLTON: It will simply have more embassy bombings, more bombings of our warships like the Cole, more World Trade Center attacks.
Earth to Bolton, Earth to Bolton: That’s impossible. There is no World Trade Center to attack. That’s because it was completely leveled on 9/11/2001, during Bush’s tenure.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:07 pm(pssst. you may want to up your meds as your psychotic delusions are back)
Who knew Wilford Brimley was such a nasty SOB.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:08 pmBolt-on Moustacheo says: “Obama…blah blah…terrorists…blah blah…embassies..”
I tell you what Johnny, how ’bout when Obama becomes President we just give the terrorists what they REALLY want. The address and coordinates of Bush’s Paraguay estate, Cheney’s new mansion in Dubai, Condi’s dorm room # at Stanford and the locations and dates of next years PNAC, AIPAC and republicon think tank conventions. Maybe we can look the other way if the terrorists want to perform a few extraordinary renditions on the likes of you, Gonzo, Rumsfeld and the like.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:08 pmFear is all they have, so believe me they will be doing their best to ratchet it up between now and November. They are counting on the moron vote.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pmYes, the policies of the past eight years have done SO much to enhance our security! Why look! We haven’t had an attack in seven years! It’s all because of good people like Bush and Bolton keepin’ the Turrerists at bay!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:12 pmmary Says:
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So will Bolton be disappointed if there are no embassy bombings on Obama’s watch? Remember how those of us who didn’t agree with the Iraq invasion have been accused of hoping things didn’t go well there so that we would be vindicated?——————————————————————————–
Haven’t you heard of Newt Grinchrich saying they should’ve allowed attacks here so we could see how safe we are? Unlike the false accusations, those kind actually hope for more innocent bloodshed. Yes, they will be extremely disappointed when no such thing happens under D leadership. They looked forward to a 9/11 and continue to look back on it fondly because it’s the best thing to happen to bush and r control. Sick bastards.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:12 pmJohn Bolton is a fear monger. Having him be the ambassador to the UN was an embarrassment. I cannot stand him.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:13 pmLook, you’ve simply GOT to have a boogeyman. If it isn’t the Socialists it’s the Communists. If it isn’t the Turrerists, it’s the Gays. If it isn’t Obama’s Black Mama, it’s Obama’s former pastor. If it isn’t flag lapel pins, it’s Not Being Proud Enough of America. Have you heard over the course of the past year anything WORTHWHILE the Republicans have said on any issue? Anything POSITIVE they have said about what they would do to make things better?
June 19th, 2008 at 3:15 pmIt should probably be noted that Bolton made these comments on FoxPropaganda, not on a legitimate news program, and the only people who heard him were the wingnuts who think Gibson is worth watching. What we need to worry about is when the FearFactor oozes into the mainstream media.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:17 pmFear mongering is the only things going on for these guys, I mean…they obviously can’t rely on their terrible record to get votes, so they have to scare the people into voting for them…and unfortunately, it works very well.
The only thing to fear, is fear itself. Don’t let these crooks into our minds, we must think for ourselves people.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pmBob – I had heard about Gingrich saying that actually (but not on the MSM, that’s for sure) and it certainly made me wonder!
I can picture all of the evil neocons sitting in a dark room discussing whether it would be better to prevent attacks so that they could say, “See how much safer you are with us around?” or if it would be better to “allow” an attack once in awhile to keep people terrified.
Newt’s exact words:
‘”And it’s almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us.”
Gingrich then recommended splitting the FBI into a domestic crime unit, which would respect civil liberties, and a “small but very aggressive anti-terrorism agency” with “extraordinary ability to eavesdrop.”‘
June 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pmWhat we are smelling here is the Repug’s flop sweat. They are so afraid of losing their control and having all the walls come tumbling down that will uncover their misdeeds.
They are just practicing the classic example of projection; their fear is pushed onto the constituency in hopes they will be given ‘one more chance’.
Sick psychopathic bastads.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pmthese people are classical fascists. so GD frustrating.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pmWell…let’s not let them be frustrating. Let’s find them entertaining! I mean, I haven’t heard such hilarity since Lynne Cheney went apeshit over lesbianism in her family that she accused poor Kerry of being, “A very bad man.” Er, note to Lynne – you’ve got the lesbian daughter. Er, note to Bolton – you’ve got a funny mustache!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:30 pmBolton is a rabid dog that needs to be put down.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pmWasn’t Bolton the one so wacked out the Republicans wouldn’t even confirm him for the UN position? It’s a good thing he is getting so much face time on these talking head shows so everyone can see just how pathologically insane he is.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pmNewt is a hypocrit and cannot be trusted. What he’s recommending is dividing the FBI into pro-Constitution and Anti-Constitution. Compartmentalizing violation of the 4th Amendment doesn’t make it right. Newt the neocon Nazi should go play in traffic.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:49 pmZed – I can’t tell whether you are thinking we should give The Turrerists habeas corpus, or whether you think McCain is a boob for the 100-year remark. It was almost like holding two diametrically opposing viewpoints at once!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:50 pmYeah, this freakin fear mongering tactic is really working.
Obama leads 344/194 in electoral vote
June 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pmJust for having a basket case like Bolt-on spew on his time slot John Gibson should get a Flying V inserted rectally (neck first, of course).
June 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmRUCerious Says:
Yeah, this freakin fear mongering tactic is really working.
Obama leads 344/194 in electoral vote
My only problem with this website (which was first pointed out to me by a professor of political science as a great resource) is that he persists in labeling Oregon as “weak Democratic”. Weak? Bah. The Republican Party in Oregon is not even on the ropes anymore; they’ve been knocked entirely out of the ring and are wandering around looking for their teeth.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pmI know Bolton is a putz, also know most of the recih winger’s are fear and smear and full of BS but let me present some long thought out thing’s that many here may or may not of thought about…
Palosi, Reid and many other suposid Dem’s are screwing us just as bad, if not worse than the reich have done by slamming the door on impeachment, not holding to their oath of office to protect the constitution and lieing and caving on every item since the get go….Palosi knew about the wiretapping long before 9/11 by her own admission..Now they are helping give a free pass..
Many item’s don’t even need to go up for a vote, the time limit’s aren’t up, but good old Reid and Palosi have helped the reich like good little soldier’s and I for one am sick to death of all these traiter’s to my country and her people no matter what side of the isle they claime to be on…I think it’s all just one big happy party and we are getting screwed with out even a kiss.
About Obama, he seem’s like a good man but I have many questions that only get generalized answere’s like the war and Israel for instance.
One very big thought has crossed my mind…How many in our country will not vote for him because he is black, just like how many would not vote for Hillery because she was a woman…Last but not least, will the young voter’s really get out there and vote or will they do as they have in the past and just fade away..
I personaly do not feel like gloating at this point, the race and electronic count’s are not in…Don’t forget we need to boot out the bad Dem’s along with the reich winger’s or nothing change’s.. Blessings
June 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pmPeople like Bolton need to be given a rifle and sent to Iran. Either that or just hang em here at home.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pmWell said #1 Witch, well said.
Remember folks, they’re ALL POLITICIANS.
The beauty of our Country is we can get rid of them every other year in the House.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:16 pmHoyer & Pelosi are a great start…
President Leftside Annie, here, Zeddie. Pay attention, please!
Zed Lefflin, under the authority granted to me by the USA Patriot Act, I hereby designate you as a terrorist suspect and a potential enemy combatant. Further, I order you detained indefinitely, also under authority of the USA Patriot Act and various signing statements. (Forget your attorney and the ACLU, bud, they can’t help you, because they won’t know where you are! Heheheh!)
Please report to Gitmo immediately, do not pass GO, do not collect 200 dollars.
While you are detained, in order to preserve our national security (I mean, who knows? You may have a suitcase nuke hidden somewhere, after all!), I have issued orders that you be “harshly” interrogated, which really means that you’ll be tortured, but we don’t call it that – that’s too icky.
Anyway, please expect to be waterboarded and placed in stress positions for hours at a time. I have a whole stack of Barry Manilow CD’s queued up and ready to go and some dirty undies I borrowed from the womens’ rugby team at the local Gay and Lesbian Center. Also, Fido hasn’t been fed in a while, so he’s very hungry. (I’d keep my legs crossed tightly if I were you, pal. Just sayin’.)
Oh, and if you don’t report to Gitmo immediately, I have the authority to smash your door down – without one of those pesky warrants.
I hope you enjoy your stay at Gitmo, and I’m sure your family will be fine without you. Have a nice day, and welcome to Amurka!!
By order of President Leftside Annie
June 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pmThis is just one more reason I feel the way I do about what has happened to America. http://www.tagg-theangrygayguy.com
June 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pmWho was in the White House on 9/11 and the eight months prior? Why it was Dubya the drunken AWOL coward and all his criminal administration. They still haven’t done anything to stop the terrorists who hit the WTC but they have terrorized the Middle East, more especially, Iraq for the past five years. These guys should all be locked up.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:31 pmRUCerious Says
June 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Yeah, this freakin fear mongering tactic is really working.
Obama leads 344/194 in electoral vote
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Yep, it looks like Florida has swung from barely red to barely blue. I guess Floridians have some thoughts about the idea of drilling off the shores of their state. Wonder if they will swing back as a result of Bolton’s fearmongering?
June 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pmConsidering the Republicans’ poor record of predicting the present over the past seven years (believing Russia and/or China posed the greatet threat to the U.S. as late as the morning of 9/11; claiming Iraq was actively developing WMD; contending we would be treated as liberators and the whole thing would be over in less than six months; trying to justify attacking Iran with more discredited nuke stories) they aren’t helping their chances in the election by sending out malevolent trolls like Bolton and Gingrich to project an apocalyptic future if Obama wins. Even the sheeple seem to have started shutting this nonsense out around the time the quagmire in Iraq and the pitiful Katrina response stripped the last veneer of competence from the Bushbots. The only way I see McFlipFlop winning is if the Rs manage to run with a persistent but almost subliminal theme of inexperience based on Obama’s relatively brief public life to try to put enough doubt in the minds of older white voters while using surrogates with no direct ties to the candidate to spread the “scary black man” meme so the Fox watchers bother to show up at the polls. Sending out the Boltontroll who is openly in the McCain camp to spew nonsense just looks desperate.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pmJohn Bolton kind of looks like Mark Twain on angel dust. Acts like Idi Amin on crank.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pmThen he needs to mobilize some thugs to nullify the election, like he did in Florida in 2000. Stop the count. I’m from the RNC!
June 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pmThis is their best strategy, and it’ll work…
especially after somebody plants a ‘dirty bomb’–which may or may not go off, but which is alleged to have links to Iran (you’ll NEVER know, for sure, of course; no civilian will EVER see the evidence). If it goes off, the Right will come for libruls and progs with dogs and nooses, for protesting torture and such which could have ‘protected’ Murrka.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pmSteve King (R-IA) should go for a swim in a cornfield back home.
June 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pmi posted this yesterday, on the dead “FLASHBACK:Guiliani” thread…
maybe i’ll have better luck here:
here it is… i’ve been outside working in the beautiful high 70s, low humidity weather these past days… [tuesday] i heard this exchange – or thought i heard it and wasn’t sure until i could check the transcript today… taking a break, i found it -
from Race to the White House with david gregory, simulcast on RACHEL MADDOW’s show on AirAmericaRadio:
well, i don’t recall that they ever got back to it…
but, is that true??? they are NOT incarcerated???
this may have been covered, but my skimming the threads did not pick it up, and i haven’t been reading the comments…
June 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pmbut, REALLY???
June 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Yeah I GRUFF honestly that’s an GRUFF view of it, that it will GRUFF be a replay of the GRUFF administration. It will GRUFF have more GRUFF bombings, more GRUFF of our GRUFF like the GRUFF, more World Trade Center attacks. That GRUFF be the GRUFF outcome from that GRUFF.
Regards,
John Mustache McGruffy
June 19th, 2008 at 4:58 pmOn the subject of dirty bombs, one thing I’d like to know. 15 out of the 19 real terrorists of September 11 were Saudi nationals. We are giving our Pals, the Saudis, a nice, new nuclear (Not Nukluar!!!) reactor. Saudi Arabia has an average of 300 cloudless days, yet we’re giving them an Nuclear Reactor. Why, oh why, is this happening? Better yet, why isn’t the “Liberal Press” screaming their heads off? If a couple of fuel rods from this little “Gift” happen to get lost, guess what you have a Huge potential for. Saudia Arabia is the homeland of Osama Bin Laden, the birthplace of Al Queda, the land tha produced the majority of the 9/11 hijackers, and we’re giving them a nuclear reactor??? I don’t believe in giving kids matches, much less Saudis radioactive material!!! This looks suspiciously like a little ‘gift’ to the next administration, but then I’m an amazing cynic.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pmImpeach Pelosi, Reid, Cheny and Bush and Save the Constitution! And save my fingers as well, ’cause I’m tired of typing this!
If Bolton says something, we can figure the opposite is true. Didn’t Reid offer to pay for Cheney to go campaigning for McCain? I think Bolton can give the warm up speeches for Cheney… think of the votes this would generate for Obama!!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pmDoes anyone anywhere care what this war criminal thinks?
June 19th, 2008 at 6:18 pmLMAO . . . Gibson and Bolton. Judas priest . . . can it possibly get any more pathetic than that?
June 19th, 2008 at 8:12 pmseriously,these guys are having a laugh,right? – i mean,they have to be comedians…i am sick to fu(kin death of bolton and his vision of doom for us all – ironic also that a pill like gibson says obama is “not coming up with anything new” with regards to fighting terrorism – well neither has bush,or bolton,or cheney or rice or etc – and i have a question for bolton – on the fbi’s list of most wanted terrorists,why is there NOT ONE iranian if he thinks that iran is the greatest state sponsor of terror on the face of the earth….come to think of it,there is also NOT ONE iraqi on that list either – wierd,as i thought that muqtada al sadr would be on the hit list – WHY does the msm give wankers like bolton a pass on their ridiculous statements and not follow up?
June 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm“Everything that Obama is saying today is registering very intensely among those who wish us no good.”
Ummm, you mean like you, John Bolton?
June 19th, 2008 at 9:28 pm.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, unless Bolton proves me wrong, HE’S A FASCIST!
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:18 amLet’s watch closely how the Neo-Cons are itching really bad for a pre-election staged terrorist attack. They’re up to something BushCo.-Osama Bin Laden Partnership and Neo-Con cronies. Another staged terrorist attack would also help justify another criminal invasion in Iran. They just can’t wait!
June 20th, 2008 at 2:49 amEven were it true, then this guy wouldn’t really complain as he was one of those that needed that new Pearl Harbor type of event to kick of the PNAC agenda.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:09 amwe can only hope that bolton is in the embassy that gets blown up! lol
June 20th, 2008 at 9:54 amI doubt, in an Obama Presidency we’ll be funding the contras in Nicaragua and selling missiles to Iran like Reagan/Bush did. I also doubt we’ll ignore threats of 9/11 attack like Attorney General Ashcroft did under Bush/Cheney regime. Bolten is a typical Bush cronie.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm