Bolton: Bush Left Obama ‘a Mess’

[Tony_FLADEM]

More than three years after his former boss left the White House, John Bolton spoke out Wednesday, saying that President Obama came into office in 2009 and had a number of problems to clean up after President Bush's eight years in office. Bolton, former ambassador to the United Nations, also gave some free advice to presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, saying it won't pay for Republicans to try to debate how big the mess was. "I think people would agree with Obama that he was left with a mess," Bolton said. He added that Bush's legacy would get better the farther away we get from his presidency.

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[unkachuck]

1. amazing, coming from bolton....

"...Bush's legacy would get better the farther away we get from his presidency..."

....sort of like, stink on shit....

[Samantha]

6. That is exactly what I was thinking! n/t

[DaveJ]

43. I disagree. Lies fade away, the truth always rises to the surface

As more time passes, it will become more evident that Bush Jr was responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. It just takes time for many to accept a truth as unpleasant as that.

[iemitsu]

45. perhaps bolton meant by farther away,

more than 50 or 100 years?
that might make our memories fade.

[Samantha]

48. I read that to mean it was amazing that Bolton could make even this statement

There has never been any question for me regarding the Bush* legacy and the amount of deaths caused by his illegal, immoral was on Iraq. I never believed him from the beginning when he said there were weapons of mass destruction there, and I cried when the U.S. troops crossed the desert and invaded. I think half of the Country then was with me. 56 percent of Democrats opposed this war.

[Politicalboi]

2. LOL!

"He added that Bush's legacy would get better the farther away we get from his presidency". Yes because it's worked so well for Carter.
Geppetto we ain't gonna forget the worst assministration of the 21st Century EVER!

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Or Nixon's...or Hoover's...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. Like the scent of skunk

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Holy Guacamole. He really said that. K&R

[tanyev]

5. *spit take*

Whaaa?

[awoke_in_2003]

7. i picked the wrong week...

to stop sniffing glue

[calimary]

46. ROFL!!!!!!!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

47. I was hoping...

Someone would get the reference.

[calimary]

49. Worthy of a DUzy! I'm still laughing!

That one just blew away my blues, awoke_in_2003!

[awoke_in_2003]

50. Good to hear...

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Holy Crap, Talk About A Hangover In The Morning......

News Busters and Media Research Center ( Both His) And not to mention
fox new's answer to mediamatters.org on the right, will be in damage control
tomorrow. Rush and Hannity will claim "Out Of Context" meme, LOL.

[spanone]

9. no shit sherlock. add the economy to the list and shut the fuck up, walrus.

[Lucky Luciano]

10. Must be a typo. They were probably referring to the singer, Michael Bolton. nt

[rhett o rick]

11. I am going with that. Otherwise my universe would be upside-down. nm

[Peace Patriot]

12. Lol! After Lolling...what does he want an appointment to? Could that be it?

Puzzling.

[Alcibiades]

17. No way

Sure, the president appointed Wall Street types to oversee the nation's financial system, after a collapse created by these very same people, but Bolton? If he was going to pick a GOP figure for a top post, at least he would pick one who is not crazy.

Though it appears Bolton was lucid for a moment here, if only accidentally.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

13. Of course, the Bush legacy will get better because Americans are blaming The Black Guy for all

the mess that Bush was responsible for. Even Democrats AND liberals blame Obama, buying into right wing lies. I gotta hand it to the Republicans. They know how to lie with such skill, repeating the lies over and over and over again until even Democrats and progressives start repeating those same lies!

Wake up, people! Stop blaming Obama for this shit that Bush (and Clinton) left him!!!!!

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[Jamaal510]

14. .,.

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[Jerry Frey]

18. Ya think?

Remember the ranch in Crawford? Governor Bush purchased it in 1999 to enhance his cowboy, good ol’ goober boy image for his presidential run. Rancher Bush was all hat and no cattle. President Bush pretended to be something he was not, a leader. Lieutenant Bush couldn’t lead a troop of Girl Scouts to cookies. The face of the Texas Rangers for five years until 1994, the front man, he was uninvolved with baseball operations. Sure, he’s the affable kind of guy you’d like to have a beer with, but he’s an alcoholic. Cowboy Bushie never rode a horse, unlike his model, Ronald Reagan.

http://napoleonlive.info/what-i-think/prairie-chapel-ranch/

[hifiguy]

41. There shore was a lotta brush at that "ranch."

All he ever did was "clear brush" when he was there. DUers called it the pig farm.

Ride a horse, hell, Chimpy is scared to death of horses.

Welcome to DU!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

15. Bolton must be wrong because Obama gave his attention to passing health-care reform which Bush

had nothing to do with.

Obviously, if there were a number of Bush problems to clean up, either (1) Obama took care of them like killing Osama and pulling troops out of Iraq to temporarily go to Afghanistan or (2) such problems were signifigantly less important that passing health care reform.

Bolton is wrong.

[magical thyme]

37. 2 illegal and unnecessary wars were not the only problem left by Bush

There is a little nagging problem with the economy. Obama had a choice between completely restructuring the economy (which Sumners was for and Geithner was against) or restructuring health care.

Obama's choice was to follow Geithner's advice (the lowest risk choice on the economy) and address health care.

My personal hope and prayer is that once Timmeh goes away and another election isn't at stake, Obama will finally have the courage to address the economy. Cause otherwise, Rome is gonna be burning...

[progressoid]

16. Whaaaa???

[Chan790]

19. Not surprised by this.

Bolton is an ideologue, not a partisan. He actually believes the things he says and advocates for unlike Rumsfeld or Cheney or Powell or Rice; Bush didn't listen to him. To the likes of Bolton, that mess existed because Bush chose the expedient and politic policy that suited the agenda rather than choosing hard solutions.

Yes, Bolton's fucking nuts...but he's sincerely nuts.

[CTyankee]

21. my guess is that it's a petty, personal thing that he's miffed about...maybe going all the way back

to their Yalie days. I've learned that it's stuff like that, not ideological differences (as such) that drives a personal need for vindication and revenge. It's called a "grudge." And people carry them around FOREVER....

[JHB]

23. I smell a brand name there...

Bolton's Sincerely Nuts - salted and unsalted.

Bolton's Fucking Nuts are, of course, just salty.

[BlueMTexpat]

20. At long last, a stopped clock moment from Bolton ...

but that's all it is.

As for "Bush's presidency getting better the farther away we get" from it - only if we're ever able to reach the outer limits of the cosmos.

[sakabatou]

22. You don't say!

[Kolesar]

24. Bush kept whining that his problems were the fault of President Clinton

Bolton looks past that detail :

Instead, Mr Bolton said, when faced with the prospect of re-electing Mr Obama, "people are saying OK, you inherited a mess, well what have you done to fix it?"

from the Daily Telegraph article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9301097/John-Bolton-US-Voters-agree-George-W-Bush-left-Barack-Obama-with-a-mess.html

[90-percent]

25. impressive

A rare outburst of candor from one of the best war criminals of the GW Bush dark ages.

Was there anybody with above average intelligence in the Bush WH? They all come off stupid and willfully ignorant and just plain mean to me?

-90% Jimmy

[kentuck]

26. This is why it would be foolish...

to keep George W Bush out of the next election. He is still part of the problem and he is still part of the GOP.

[magical thyme]

36. generous of Bolton to insert himself into the campaign

Nobody outside of Joisey recognizes Booker who?

But everybody remembers the "Got Milk" mustache man...

Maybe he really hates Rmoney too?

[bupkus]

27. One mess President Obama didn't address

Is highlighted in the NY Times quotation of the day today:

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Leadership must be carried out by example by the prosecution of crimes, not the commission of crimes."

RICHARD LUSSICK, a judge in the case of Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's civil war.

[Sherman A1]

28. A refreshing bit of honesty

I have no use for Mr. Bolton, but I cannot disagree with his assessment of the situation.

[Historic NY]

29. William Henry Harrison had a great administration...how soon people forget.

[madokie]

30. Did Bolton slip there by telling the truth?

[lunatica]

31. And he knows because he orchestrated some of that mess

fucking asshole.

[siligut]

32. He is telling Mitt not to qualify and quantify Bush's mess

That way Republicans can maintain some of their denial.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

33. WOW - my respect for Bolton just went up by 1%

It is now up to 2%

[SemperEadem]

34. No... there is no amount of time that will lessen the opprobrium

aimed at bush and his minions for what he did to this country.

The only thing that will do that is for them to be charged and convicted of war crimes, and even then, don't count on a lessening of said opprobrium.

[jmondine]

35. He went on to say that water is wet and the Pope is kinda religious.

[sinkingfeeling]

38. And here I thought ole John whispered in Dubya's ear to get us into

two wars.

[McCamy Taylor]

39. This means the NeoCons are gonna dump Romney and wait for Brother Jeb in 2016.

Bolton is a mouthpiece for the NeoCons, aka oil and gas industry.

[hifiguy]

42. And bears are discovered defecating

in the forests.

[MADem]

44. Holy SHIT! John "Plato's Retreat" Bolton?

Are fish riding bicycles? Has the law of gravity been repealed?

I'm shocked!!