Posted on 04/14/2005 1:23:06 PM PDT by NonZeroSum
Questions about John Bolton's fitness for representing the US at the United Nations were heightened today as more staffers came forward to describe his chronic abuse of his subordinates and volatile, unpredictable temper, as demonstrated in this Senate testimony:
Q: Frank, could we go back? Could you characterize your meeting with Bolton? Was he calm?
MR. FINGAR: No, he was angry. He was standing up.
Q: Did he raise his voice to you? Did he point his finger in your face?
MR. FINGAR: I don't remember if he pointed. John speaks in such a low voice normally. Was it louder than normal? Probably. I wouldn't characterize it as screaming at me or anything like that. It was more, hands on hips, the body language as I recall it, I knew he was mad.
Well, you can imagine that when I read this, I was simply shocked at the thought of such a monster representing us at Turtle Bay, reinforcing our international image as an out-of-control cowboy, hands on hips, fingers just centimeters from holsters. I decided to interview some other former staffers to see if this frightening incident was just the tip of an iceberg of hot fury. I got a few leads from the DNC, and came up with some pretty juicy stuff.
First, a "Nita Valium" recounted a fearful encounter with the fiend:
TM: So, what prompted the out-of-control incident that you experienced with Mr. Bolton?
NV: I brought some coffee in to him one morning, and accidentally spilled it on his lap, severely scalding his private parts.
TM: And how did he react?
NV: It was just horrible. He stood up, got a napkin to dry off, wiped off his trousers as best he could, and told me in a tone slightly louder than normal, that I should be more careful. I could tell he was on the very verge of shaking his finger at me. He seems like the quiet type at first, but you can tell that under that mustache, he's always smoldering, just like Hitler. You never know when he's going to explode.
TM: Was that the end of it?
NV: Later on, I heard that he had requested that someone else bring him coffee after that. He got his wish--I've never been able to do that again. My promising career as a coffee-bringer-to-John-Bolton has been ruined, and I had to settle for a promotion to a different department.
Another former staffer, "A. Peazement," related the nominee's response upon being informed that the State Department intended to recommend that North Korea be made permanent head of the UN Committee on Human Rights. He still shuddered in fear at the recollection of the incident, though it was years ago:
TM: So, he didn't take it well?
AP: No, not at all. He raised his voice almost a half a decibel, and asked me why.
TM: Did your explanation satisfy him?
AP: Well, he said it did, but you could tell he was seething. His voice had the reasonable, calm sound of someone about to explode with fury and fling sharp and heavy items off the top of the desk at you. He was starting to almost frown at me, and I could tell that he was going to put his hands on his hips any minute, but I managed to get out of the room before he could do it.
This correspondent has to ask: How did this brute manage to work in a federal bureaucracy for so many years, with no apparent consequences? How has this kind of behavior gone so unnoticed for so long? How many more sadistic fiends like this are there out there, waiting to be nominated to some sensitive diplomatic post by this bloodthirsty administration? When can we once again be led by people who have the proper temper, and temperament for power?
wimper, wimper..I'll bet he threatened to wrap their heads in panties.
LOL!! Good stuff!
The man's an animal. I say he's right for the job.
The horrors.....
C'mon. The rules are that you have to put "Satire" in the title. Otherwise people will belive you!
Very funny!
I'd settle for getting rid of it.
This about sums up what the left has against Bolton.
And Madeleine Halfbright was notoriously...uh, shall we say, "difficult."
How about Barbara Boxer? Dare we imagine what Barbara Boxer must be like in private? She's rude, strident and shrill enough in public.
This is no different from those same Democrats' opposition to the Bush administration; but they don't see it as disqualifying themselves from serving in the Senate, . . . ? Do the Democrats not see their opposition to the Bush Administration as a necessary element in keeping it from just running all over the country? Are not the Democrats searching diligently for anything that might remove the Republicans from power?
Do we not need, desperately, an opposition/adversarial voice at the UN to hold them accountable for their corruptions and scandals? Yes, I an convinced that we do need such a man; and Mr. Bolton is the best man for the job; at least among the people I know.
I heard a very scary statistic regarding the number of (Commie bootlicker) people fired from the DoS since 1980. I believe, IIRC, the number is below 25!
I watched the wimp with the beard trying to sink Bolton's appointment. It was clear to me that the guy who hired the wimp and maybe the wimp, himself, are folks that Senator McCarthy wanted out of the State Department. The same dem-neocommunist scumbags that stuck it to McCarthy are trying to stick it to Bolton.
Is this guy for real?!
Who the hell even knows what HALF a decibel is?
I hope the first thing Bolton does when he gets there is inform Kofi of America's intention to quit the UN and evict the entire corrupt organization from our country.
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