Bolton: Obama should have condemned Palestinian rocket attacks — but he did.
Bolton: Obama should have condemned Palestinian rocket attacks — but he did.
In his speech to the United Nations yesterday, President Obama said that “more progress is needed” in working towards “a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world.” As part of his message, Obama said “we continue to call on Palestinians to end incitement against Israel.” On Fox News today, former UN ambassador John Bolton mocked Obama’s “incitement” line, saying “it’s not incitement the Israelis are worried about, it’s rocket attacks.” Watch it:
Bolton’s claim, which he used to support his belief that Obama’s speech was “as negative, or more, as anything any American president has said,” is disingenuous at best. He neglected to mention that moments later in his speech, Obama explicitly condemned Palestinian rocket attacks:
We must remember that the greatest price of this conflict is not paid by us. It is paid by the Israeli girl in Sderot who closes her eyes in fear that a rocket will take her life in the night. It is paid by the Palestinian boy in Gaza who has no clean water and no country to call his own. These are God’s children. And after all of the politics and all of the posturing, this is about the right of every human being to live with dignity and security.
As Matt Duss notes, Bolton also attacked Obama for employing the same language on the Israeli-Palestinian solution that his old boss — President Bush — used.
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Who cares what this ignorant fossil thinks. Why does ANYONE (besides Faux of course) care what these clowns think.
When are we going to declare Faux part of the axis of evil and/or a terrorist organization?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pmShorter Bolton: “He’s democrat, he’s black, and he’s probably liberal, therefore he’s wrong about everything…”
Bolton’s a putz.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:03 pmyosemite john can’t pay attention very well, can he?
why do they even talk to him?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:05 pmBolton is unqualified to discuss or hold any position related to international affairs. He is uneducated on the subject, and ignorant of current events.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:09 pmWhy miss a chance to attack Obama? That is what this is really about. Beck and Limbaugh will repeat this lie, and the ditto heads and wingnuts will be sending emails full of Obama hates Israel messages by the days end.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:09 pmHe neglected to mention that moments later in his speech, Obama explicitly condemned Palestinian rocket attacks:
– - Once a cherry-picker, always a cherry-picker.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:11 pmSTFU Bolton!
You had your chance to make a better world, and you chose not to.
Go count your money and grumble about how much you hate the U.N.!
September 24th, 2009 at 3:11 pmWell as soon as President Obama even mentions the suffering and the rights of Palestinians a neocon like Bolton will come screaming that Obama endangers Israels and Americas security, emboldening terrorists, appeasing Iran, ad infinitum ad nauseum
September 24th, 2009 at 3:12 pmRepublicans hate the facts, because they always have a liberal bias. It’s why lying is the constant refuge of Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarian wingnuts.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:13 pmBolton reeeeeeally wants to blow something up. This is probably someone who set ants on fire as a child/teenager/US ambassador to the UN
September 24th, 2009 at 3:18 pmWhen I saw that picture yesterday of Abbas and Netanyahu somberly shaking hands while Obama had each of them by an elbow I thought, “Bolton’s not going to like that!”
Bolton is such a knee-jerk reactionary about just about anything that happens at the U.N. and these days I’m sure he’s plenty twitchy.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:19 pmbush did it right, that’s why the Israelies built a wall instead of talking peace, right?
bush did it right, that’s why Palestine is a concentration camp after 8 years of bush, right?
etc.
If the republicans had ever been sucessful at anything maybe someone would take them seriously.
What have they gotten right?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:19 pmThat’s how the Right is spreading the lies.
Bolton says it on FOX TV…and the viewers of FOX now have it in their mind that Obama didn’t say it.
That’s what FOX NEWS is now 24/7.
When you want to diss the President or Reid or Pelosi…..
Just go on FOX and make some shit up about them.
Then the people of FOX will believe the crap.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:22 pmIt is increasingly obvious that to be a true Republican and be on the TB shows you have to demonstrate that you have an attention span of 7 minutes, a severe case of short term memory loss and be willing to wet your didies on said national TB.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:25 pmWho is John Bolton and why would anyone care what this fuking neocon spews anyway?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:27 pmi just heard randi rhodes make a crack at bolton, saying that in one day at the UN president obama did more than bolton ever tried to do…
she also stated that dubya would have had to take another vacation after just READING president obama’s schedule this week…
ha!
September 24th, 2009 at 3:33 pmI hate this right wing word play game. Speaking to a Fox audience maybe the listeners don’t know the meaning and implication of the word “incitement,” but dumbing – and limiting – it down to “rocket attacks” doesn’t change what was said or it’s meaning.
Put a sock in it, Bolton.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:36 pmwhich would explain why colonel sander bolton was on faux news…he has ZERO credibility when it comes to foreign policy.
by the way, why isn’t johnny boy leading the charge into iran? that’s right, he’s a chickenshit who doesn’t mind other’s kids dying.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:36 pmNo, by condemn, Bolton means ‘murder a bunch of brown people.’
September 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pmWill somebody please shout:: False Equivalency!
Over the past 5 years, fewer than a score of Israelis have been killed by Palestinian rockets.
Which is sad for the individuals and their families, and is universally mourned in the press and capitols of the West.
In just three weeks, last year, more than 1500 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, many slaughtered in cold blood under flags of truce, while others succumbed to Israel’s use of “unlawful” munitions.
When finally a report appeared which accused the Israelis of incommensurable response in the Gaza slaughter, it was condemned by the Obamanauts for being too one-sided.
The US, which spends $3-$6 billion/annum supplying the Israeli military can scarcely be believed as an independent broker.
Remember Forp. Yksmohc’s admonition: A “peace process” is always preferable to “peace,” because it lets you do what you are doing without requiring actual “peace” break out…
September 24th, 2009 at 3:46 pmThe most significant thing that President Obama said in his excellent U.N. address is that — in all cases — it is the people who suffer the consequences of the failure of their leaders.
There is no better example of that than Little Johnny “Got Milk?” Bolton . . . and the moron who recess-appointed him. If Little Johnny wants to find someone to blame for the current state of affairs, he need look no further than himself, GDumbya and the Ship of Fools who “led” this nation for the past eight years.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:48 pmFormer U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton tells NRO that President Obama’s address to the U.N. was “a post-American speech by our first post-American president. It was a speech high on the personality of Barack Obama and high on multilateralism, but very short in advocating American interests.”
Post-American?! I think what you meant to say was ANTI-American, right John?
September 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pmAlso noteworthy, Bolton says, was how Obama highlighted “just how much of American foreign policy that he wants to run through the U.N.”
“Usually presidential speeches at the U.N. are ’state of the world’ addresses. Obama’s speech was filled with talk about U.N. bodies, U.N. treaties, and sending Secretary of State Clinton to a conference on the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which would be an incredible waste of time for her. The president’s speech showed a fascination with U.N.-centric issues. Obama talked about getting past ‘balance of power’ politics. He talked about the interests that unite us rather than divide us.”
Bolton’s conclusion: “It was all extremely naive. The president did everything he could to say: ‘Can’t we all just get along?’”
Can’t be trying to get ALONG with other countries for crying out loud! That would be naive! Hrmph, Obama talking about “the interests that unite us rather than divide us”, what’s wrong with that man? Doesn’t he know that he has to bully them all into submission?
September 24th, 2009 at 4:00 pm96% of Israelis think that President Obama is an anti-semite and a Jew hater. These same Israelis think that George W. Bush was the “best friend” Israel ever had.
Israel is now farther to the right than Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, William Kristol, and FOX News combined.
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/09/200992261458462792.html
September 24th, 2009 at 4:01 pm“On Fox News today, former UN ambassador John Bolton…”
On Fox News today, former recess-appointed because he couldn’t get approved by the Senate UN ambassador John Bolton…
There. Fixed it for you.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:15 pmBolton is like a two legged stool. It cant stand up by itself nor should it be listened to.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:15 pmI am really tired of the anti-semite finger pointing, or any finger pointing for that matter. There is one race on this planet and the sooner we stop wasting its resources decimating its children the worse off we are.
September 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pmThe better off we are.
*Smacking self on haid*
September 24th, 2009 at 4:20 pmAnd I’m guessing that Bolton’s definition of a “just and fair” solution in the mid-east is for Israel to have free reign for a scorched earth policy towards anyone it doesn’t like ?
September 24th, 2009 at 4:44 pmWith comments like this, I think (again and again) that Bolton is not a human being, but someone who sadly lost his soul a long time ago.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:05 pmBolt-On is and always will be a moron hold-on.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:06 pmBolton has one goal in everything he does – to embroil the United States of America in as many difficult wars as possible, until we reach the breaking point and start losing them en masse. Like everyone in the right wing, his only purpose for existence is to see America broken and on its knees, as well as leaving the entire Middle East one giant heap of burning bodies. He is a traitor, and all patriots should speak out loudly and clearly against him whenever he starts to waggle his bushy lip in service of whatever dark blood god he worships.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:09 pmThe Paletinians had a chance for statehood in 1947 and rejected it.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm“Bolton: Obama should have condemned Palestinian rocket attacks — but he did.”
Please.. Pay no attention to the lunatic fringe former UN Ambassador behind the curtain. Pass the popcorn please…
September 24th, 2009 at 5:12 pmWell is any one surprised? John Bolton is a war monger and racist. His views on the middle east are no less then that of the Pope who committed Europe to the Crusades. He is an idiot and fool and is not worth the spit in my mouth.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:14 pmconservative guy says:
The Paletinians had a chance for statehood in 1947 and rejected it.
So there are no second chances in your world? Good thing that doesn’t apply to the Jews, otherwise there’d be no Israel – eh?
What a clueless hypocritical extremist.
You do realize that most Palestinians weren’t even alive in 1947 – right? What a hateful fool. Are you an Evangelical/Mormom rapture freak, or a Zionist freak? Because you are definitely a freak.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:25 pmJohn Bolton’s appointment as UN ambassador under Bush was crazy. He thought the UN should be dismantled.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:27 pmJohn the Walrus has a low opinion of the United Nations – recall he said the top ten floors should be blown off – and yet Bush appointed him ambassador! The man has no diplomatic skills, and an total inability to think beyond his personal zone of ignorance.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:35 pmI couldn’t care less what that fool says and I am sorry that others do – he should be exiled to a place far away and forgotten. In fact, he could take the whole damn Bush administration with him — maybe to a 250,000 acre piece of real estate in Paraguay.
Does anyone really believe that John Bolton is ever going to have any positive to say about President Obama? In fact, it is not even necessary to hear what he has to say, only that he is the commentator and leave it at that.
It would make it easier for FOX PROPAGANDA. Something like this: Greta Susteren “And now we would have had John Bolton commenting on the UN Speech”. And leave at that. Bolton doesn’t have to be there, won’t say anything. Maybe they could put up his picture. Greta could then go to the next subject.
In fact FOX PROPAGANDA could just save time and money. All they have to do is say –”on the subject of Obama and the budget, we would have had Karl Rove”, “on the subject of foreign affairs, we would have had John Bolton”, “on the subject of Health Care, we would have had Ann Coulter.” And just leave it at that, without hearing these repeating parrots.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pmJohn Bolton is has been who never was.
September 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pmBolton is truly a stupid man….bitter….feeling left out…frowned on by most people in the rest of the world…demonized by almost everyone – everywhere… truly good cluster-fox material….All lies all the time….
September 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pmAnd Bolton was confirmed by the Senate, when?
September 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pmkasinca says:
And Bolton was confirmed by the Senate, when?
Never:
Bush sent him to the U.N. to do the same job duties anyways.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:50 pmConGuy had a chance not to be a sad ingrate,
but he passed on it.
September 24th, 2009 at 7:57 pmWinski says:
Bolton is truly a stupid man….bitter….feeling left out…frowned on by most people in the rest of the world…demonized by almost everyone – everywhere… truly good cluster-fox material….All lies all the time….
Yep, that lunatic is one bad decision away from ending up on “to catch a predator” on dateline.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:34 pmThere’s a difference between incitement and rocket attacks.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:47 pmis there a difference between condemning
and
condemning
scoop?
September 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pmObama should have condemned the flapping of mustaches with no brain to guide them.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:46 pm.
Q U E S T I O N:
Did Palestine even have a choice in 1947/1948?
Just who Governed Palestine, then?
.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:49 pm.
Dear Con guy…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_mandate
.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:51 pmConservaTROLL. You are a liar and a brainwashed moron. Just kill yourself and spare humanity the pain of your putrid existance
September 25th, 2009 at 8:33 amWhy do we still have to hear from this guy? He wasn’t shit when he held a position in the last administration and he has not changed. He is a warmongering POS that only pushing for more war and loss of lives. He is part of the problem not the solution.
September 25th, 2009 at 10:47 amI’m trying to think – has Bolton ever done anything successfully in his life? Has he ever been right about anything? Has he ever accomplished anything while in any position? I’m drawing a blank here.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm