Comments on: Bush Standing Behind Bolton For U.N. Post

Despite Bipartisan Opposition, White House Continues To Push For Controversial U.N. Ambassador To Remain

[peterbaldwin-2009]

Nancy Pelosi just announced she is behind Murtha for majority leader in the House. She wrote: "With respect to Iraq in particular, I salute your courageous leadership that changed the national debate and helped make Iraq the central issue of this historic election. Your leadership gave so many Americans, including respected military leaders, the encouragement to voice their own disapproval at a failed policy that weakens our military and makes stability in that region even more difficult to achieve."

This is good news for the citizens of America. Bush is in for another "thumpin". Reid and Biden hopefully will wise up too and demand that a drawdown commence in four months.

[antoniof123]

For those of you who do not think with your brain the world is no longer the same. The little brothers have grown up and want to be treated with respect. Those of you who say the Dems need to have a plan it is the same plan just a different wording. We should not be in Iraq we should be working with the rest of the world and Bolton with worthless. The President just doesn't get it surround yourself with people who are smarter than you and in his case that should not be real hard yet he seem incapable of finding anyone smarter then him. All I see surrounding the President are people who make him look smart and that is what is sad.

[processor2]

Rather than comparing republicans vs. democrats (an argument which never goes anywhere),
let%u2019s instead compare democrat vs. democrat..%u2026let%u2019s say Clinton vs. J.F. Kennedy.

The Clinton and current Democrat philosophy on governing/government is:

%u201CBig Government will provide for you%u201D, &
%u201CFrom cradle to grave, Big Government will take care of you%u201D, &
%u201CIt takes a Village%u201D (Big Government)


Whereas J.F. Kennedy said :

%u201CAsk NOT what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country%u201D

These two philosophies (both democrat) are completely opposite of each other.

I would much rather be a J.F. Kennedy democrat than a Clinton socialist.

J.F. Kennedy also instituted tax cuts on the top rates to spur a sluggish economy. (hmmmm%u2026%u2026.sounding familiar)

Sounds like the NeoCommies have hijacked a democrat party that I once knew and respected.

[processor2]

Forget Bolton

The United States needs to get out of the U.N. and the U.N. should set up shop somewhere other than the U.S.A.

The U.N. is completely worthless, corrupt, and not worthy of this country's time and especially our money, without which the U.N. would cease to exist.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

The plan to exit Iraq that was put forth in the Kerry-Feingold Amendment and which a craven Senate was too timid to embrace (86 to 13) suddenly does not look that radical or draconian, but rather infinitely sensible and doable. Somebody just has to have the courage to implement Kerry-Feingold albeit under a different name, cut the cord, and start redeploying in a matter of a few months. The American people will only say, "It's about time".

Pelosi, Reid, and Biden, it is true, are looking pretty weak and pathetic, but Levin is calling for deployment in a few months and Jack Reed sees the writing on the wall. Whitehouse, from RI, was last year proposing a quick withdrawal, and, of course, Murtha and Kerry would have us out of there yesterday. Hopefully, Pelosi, Reid, and Biden will come to their senses when they get done playing kissy-face with Bush and his seductive bipartisanship nonsense.

[ganjaman22]

peterbandwin - You don't happen to be related to Alec Baldwin and the rest of the moronic Baldwin brothers...because you could have fooled me.

You see in order for the Dems to "charge forward" they will need to have a first step of some kind. So far I've heard all kinds of moronic calls to impeach Bush (still bitter about Clinton, or is it just the two presidential election losses?) and that's about it.

Why don't you idiots stop playing grab ***, and come up with a VIABLE plan in Iraq, and then you can steamroll all you want, and will be national heroes. The reality is you've got nothing other than lame plans to gridlock Washington even further.

Reid's laughable "3 point plan to solve Iraq" makes Bush look like Sun Tzu.

Seriously, if the Dems can come up with a workable plan in Iraq I will vote a straight Dem ticket next election. The reality of the situation is that they're just lambasting Bush's decisions in hindsight without bringing anything to the table.

[peterbaldwin-2009]

The election results did not, understandably, burst the Bush bubble. To invite Bush into the reality-based community is like asking a schizophrenic to please stop hallucinating. We're talking about mental illness here, compounded with childlike immaturity.
Bush's idea of bipartisanship is "my way or the highway". The man does not even have the sense to realize the game has changed. Magical thinking will not make Chafee change his mind nor anyone else's.

The Dems should stop playing into the fantasy of bipartisanship. Congress needs to move forcefully forward on its own and steamroll over the opposition. That is what the people want. No more silly games.

[markfoley01]

I TINK TEH UNITED NAITONS IS STUPID. THEY JUST SIT AROUND ALL DAY BICKARING AND NOT SOLVING ANY PROBLEMS.

WE NEED TO REMOVE SOME OF TEH NATIONS FROM TEH PANALS. IT SHOULD JUST BE TEH UNITED STATES, AND TEH UNITED ARAB EMIRATES. BECAUSE THEY ARE IN TEH POCKET OF UNITED STATES BANKROLLS.

THIS DEBATE IS STUPID.

[heartlight3]

I agree with jn122736 about the opportunity provided by the comment provision on the CBS news site. I can tell you why I, personally, don't post more often. I appreciate an intelligent discussion of the issues and the articles and lively exchange of ideas and opinions which makes democracy work, and occasionally I will post my opinion in such a discussion. But often the discussions are just nasty personal attacks, ridicule and name calling against those who have differing opinions. I have no interest in participating in that type of discussion. I don't see that such incivility serves any positive purpose. It seems to be a microcosm of the general political climate in this country. There is more interest in vilifying those who have different ideas than in investigating all the different ideas and opinions and coming up with a grander and more inclusive vision.

[jn122736]

I was very pleasantly surprised when I first discovered this comment addition to the articles on this CBS News Internet site. I immediately became an ardent reader. I soon logged in with my own ID and started posting some of my opinions. I was again surprised to find how easy and fast I could post any comment on any article almost instantly. CBS has always been my favorite news network and coming to this site was automatic for me. Being able to hear/read peoples posts that are uncensored, except to prevent unacceptable language, is a privilege I feared was lost to the Corporate owned, and mostly controlled, news papers networks who, too often, report what they want people to hear. Thanks again to CBS for what can and should become a heavily used and beneficial service.

However I am only one of over 300 million citizens of this great country who have the same opportunity. And after weeks of reading and posting here I am even more surprised, and indeed puzzled, as to why there aren%u2019t more posters. Some times there are long periods of time between posts and many times two individual posters can actually hold uninterrupted personal conservations. I would really like to know why? I certainly hope there are many more readers than posters or I fear this privilege will soon disappear too.
Does anyone have an answer?