John Bolton on Al Gore's Isolation
By scarce Friday Dec 14, 2007 9:01pm
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Quiz: If you were to pick the least qualified person, the one with the worst reputation from the Bush administration to comment on Global Warming, whom would you choose? If you chose recess appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, you're thinking like a Bushie, or at least their official public relations network, FOX News. When asked about mandatory limits on climate change, Bolton had this to say:
Well, it's not unusual for Vice President Gore to be wrong, either, as he is in this case. Of the G8 industrialized democracies, four -- the United States, Japan, Canada, and Russia --share our view...If you look at the developing countries, Brazil, India, and China all oppose these targets as well. So, the notion that this is the fault of the U.S. is wrong.
If anybody's isolated here, I think it's the Europeans and Al Gore...
Bolton is living in a fantasyland, as are most Bushites. The United States-- the only major industrialized country to reject the Kyoto treaty-- signed instead a compromise deal today which didn't mention any figures but set 2009 as a deadline for a new treaty, after much heel-dragging from the U.S. contingent. Senior U.S. negotiator Paula Dobriansky was booed loudly while a US environmental activist representing Papua New Guinea said to rousing cheers: "If you're not willing to lead, please get out of the way." In the end, after much grumbling, they did just that.
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Europe isolated? That’s like how many countries?
Isolated ? isolated from his brain he spouts this garbage...sooooo embarrassing...we have a whole world to apologize to....and will anyone forgive us.....
Another irrelevant Republican never been speaking in code to those without a brain. I think a warning should be required before normal humans listen to these sorry cocksuckers.
Actually, from what I heard about Bali, all those isolated countries and more ganged up on Got Milk?'s big ol USof A and made them agree to figuring out something about limiting Greenhouse gases within the next two years.
But considering the USA's track record as re treaties, laws and agreements, I'm sure it was just a case of that bully crying uncle for now and making all sorts of promises just to get the gang of kids who've had enough off his pecs, and will really give them some sort of unholy arse whipping at a later date, in addition to ignoring the agreement made in Bali.
Why is this recess appointment failure given air time? Has he ever been right about anything?
Bolton is a bad stain or mark on our American history.
I am fascinated by the on one hand USA official position of "global warming is a commie pinko hoax and is anti business and jesus"
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"Northwest passage that is opening up due to global warming belongs to the world (ahem USA first) and not just Canada".
http://www.american.edu/ted/ice/northwest-passage.htm
http://americangoy.myblogsite.com/
James.Inhofe.seen.working.Bolton.as.a.handpuppet...same.old.fool.thinking...
Oh my science, this guy is one of the biggest hacks out there today. Our (ex) Prime Minister, John Howard didn't give a shit about Global Warming either. So what did we do? We got rid of him in our recent elections! Now we have Kevin Rudd on-board, who is now doing what Johnny should've done years ago..
Weren't we recently booed at the UN regarding something related to this mythical climate change?
Yeah, right.
That is why according to Deutsche Welle reports the countries that "agree" with the US sat on their hands and let the rest of the planet trash the US in session until they capitulated.
Bolton would know what isolation is though, being as how he's never actually allowed reality to intrude into his tiny little life.
That incident at Bali was humiliating. We were led out the door like a dog having to piss. We clearly no longer lead this world. Thanks Dubyah.
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Why would any network give this buffoon airtime? Oh, it was Fox......say no more.
Talk about a bunch of flat earthers.
Oy! Mr. Facial Fungus Guy.
Schmuck!
The present Canadian government is a minority one. It only got 36% of the popular vote, and its approval is dropping. It insists that it speaks for the majority of Canadians.
It doesn't.
The fact that John Bolton is praising Canada for polluting the earth is enough to make grown Canadians weep.
miss_kitty @ 4:
Daz right. Check it out.
In Bali climate deal, US appears to backtrack
The United States appeared to backtrack on the spirit of the historic Bali agreement on climate change last night, voicing "serious concerns" about future negotiations to fight global warming.
I think Bolton is isolated in his own looney tunes world.
If there's ever been a governmental figure that deserves the isolation of a 'time out' in a corner it's him.
He also deserves to be put over some one's knee but both he and Dick Cheney would enjoy it too much...
StirFry @ 18:
If he ain't isolated he sure needs to be quaranteened.
Thank God John Bolton is no longer representing the United States at the U.N. His refusal to accept that most of the world agrees that the the United States is wrong on this issue is proof positive that he was totally unqualified for the position. His weak attack on Gore betrayed Bolton's inability to grasp the obvious and was reminiscent of Barbara Bush's reasons for the media not showing more video from the Iraqi occupation. Remember when the Quaker Oats Lady said, "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" She too could not accept the obvious.
I think Yosemite Sam in smarter than this badly drown facsimile
Senior U.S. negotiator Paula Dobriansky was booed loudly while a US environmental activist representing Papua New Guinea said to rousing cheers: “If you’re not willing to lead, please get out of the way.” In the end, after much grumbling, they did just that.
That ought to be the rallying cry from now on, each day each hour that there's one more dumb excuse for doing what we all know needs to be done: "If you're not willing to lead, please get out fo the way!"
Hey John Bolton... STFU!!! You're the one who's isolated ya LOSER.
I'd like to kick John Boltons ass. He is such a closet nazi.
Orangutan. @ 6:
A mere skidmark on the underpants of the world...
suckerforpuns @ 22:
Yer rootin' tootin' right. Them varmints like Bolton are worse than cartoon characters.
His last name is Bolton because he bolts on his hair which has the odd effect of making his nose hair grow too long so he fakes it and pretends it is a mustache. The previous sentence has more relevance to global warming than anything John Bolton ever has or ever will say about it.
John Bolton is really living in fantasyland:
"Paula Dobriansky, leader of the US delegation, and her colleague James Connaughton found themselves the targets of naked animosity. When Dobriansky announced that the US would not sign up for the Bali roadmap, boos echoed through the room. The Americans were sharply attacked by several delegations. "If you're not willing to lead, please get out of the way," said a US environmental activist representing Papua New Guinea.
Other opponents of binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as Japan or Russia, failed to come to the US delegation's defense. Left isolated, the American delegation gave in and agreed to the roadmap. "We will go forward and join consensus," said Dobriansky. This time the delegation was rewarded with a standing ovation from some participants."
Climate Change Deal Reached after US U-Turn
all these rapture bunnies and Birchers like Bolton think science is a commie plot
John @ 31:
As fairy tales go i like Little Red Riding Hood a lot better than yours.
John Bolton is a clown and even if he succeeded in fulfilling his current favorite wet dream ... triggering a war with Iran ... he would still be a clown. His is a clown from top to bottom and from the inside out. Clown.
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"Beautiful downtown Bali, Indonesia"
ROTFLMAO!
Bali is an ISLAND. That's like saying... "Beautiful downtown Hawaii". LOL! Right from the start, Faux news gets it wrong.
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Major news: This week a Senate committee voted to cite presidential confidants Karl Rove and Josh Bolten for contempt. Did Bolton get asked about this?
By Fox?
No.
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I think Bolton likes to throw BS out as facts, if you say it with confidence it must be true. He is equally repugnant in message and appearance.
Dr. No @ 29:
How refreshing that someone actually stood up to Dobriansky and the other idiotic flat worlders in the US delegation. We need to get in these bastards face more often, they are just weakling cowards with a macho facade. Hopefully the whole world will give us a standing ovation in November 2008 when the Republican Politboro loses power for hopefully, a long time.
John @ 31:
Tell that to your children when the verdict comes in to visit their generation in a form that dwarfs what we see today. And be thinking of a good excuse of how to explain that although our generation knew what to do, we did nothing. Good luck.
What a walrus.
Orangutan. @ 6:
More like he a bad looking stripe in my underwear.
Pie throwing and laugh tracks really need to make a comeback on TV.
Has this man EVER made a lucid comment?
The whole conference really was a nightmare for the US delegation. Take the hostile reactions to Paula Dobriansky who is also a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC):
"In December, 2007 at the crucial Bali summit on climate change she was booed off stage when developing nations sought to strengthen requirements for richer nations to help poorer with technology to limit emissions and adapt to climate change's impacts.
As head of the U.S. delegation, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky objected, and was met with a chorus of long and loud booing, almost unprecedented at a diplomatic summit of this kind.
Delegate after delegate took aim at the United States recalcitrant attitude. South Africa proclaimed Dobriansky's intervention was "most unwelcome and without any basis." Meanwhile Uganda said "We would like to beg them" to relent.
Then the delegate from Papua New Guinea Kevin Conrad addressed the US delegate directly. "We seek your leadership," he said "But if for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please get out of the way." Following these remarks, Dr. Dobriansky declared that the U.S. would finally agree to the consensus and be involved in the climate treaty."
As a long-haired (ex?) hippie, I really hate seeing this pinhead with semi-long hair (OK, long by Repugliconn standards), but a brain as addled as any from the Shrub administration. When he opens his mouth, I find myself reaching for the sheep shears and my .38 concurrently...
And we really wonder why the world hates us??
Here's hoping this piece of human detritus gets a massive coronary for Xmas...
Is the whole Global-Warming-is-a-hoax movement really just religious in nature? Or is big business behind this like they were behind the killing of the electric car?
You have no knowledge of insanity until you have listened to something Bolten said.
John @ 31:
ROTFLMAO at the waste of genetics. The troll uses that tired old bullshit rhetoric- the 'verdict' is not in! What the hell are you talking about, you vile piece of biowaste? The vast majority of the scientific concensus says that, yes, it is happening, and yes, it is at least partially man-made! The only debate amongst intelligent people now is what we're going to do about it to save the world. I love how such idiocy is spewed so defenitively by the pinhead Right-Wingers at every chance.... must be lovely to be dead certain about everything.
As for Bolton, even Faux should have known better than to bring on this mustache with a guy attatched under there somewhere. Unpleasant in speech, manner, and appearance, he's the definition of the sort of person who's endangering this republic. People around the world look at what the gubment is saying, and what this fewel is saying, and Billo, and the rest, and they aren't going to have a positive reaction. Just check out our approval ratings overseas. They're abysmal.
Summary:
Yosemite Sam Bolton talks out of his ass once more.
He is a buffoon and everyone knows it but FOX.
McDuff @ 45:
They're hand-in-glove (but then aren't they always?).
Nice f*ckin' moustache. Anyhoo... the citizens of the countries he mentioned as objecting to Kyoto & Bali, (as in, I'll speak for Canada) totally support reducing emissions. We too have governement representatives in the pay of big corporations and acting in their own interests. (That's not unique to the USA.) (And P.M. Harper wants to lick Bush's....... um 'thing'.)
John @ 31:
So stop whining and read some books. I'll bet you drive an SUV (or two).
STOP George @ 34:
I got the distinct impression she had no idea where Bali is (and maybe even what it is??). Typical American.
Question for Miss Teen South Carolina: 1/5 of Americans can't find our own country on a map.... (any thoughts?) ...(NO)
John @ 31:
Are you nuts!? Tell that to the people in this video or the people on the island of Tuvalu, 7 billion people largely motorized on Earth and you think we aren't affecting the world?
Refugees from warming Video: As rising sea levels wash away islands in the Bay of Bengal, even those who have elevated their homes — some up to 60 feet — find that they're still not safe. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22262688#22262688
"...thank you so much mr. ambassador..."....ugh, that hurts to even hear when looking at his toilet brush face. What a disgrace of a human being. ONLY could this jackass have been stuck in during recess of Congress by the chimp.
What an asshole....worse even than bor as a representative to the US. For someone who HATES the UN to represent us in the UN just shows how ass backwards these repugs are.
Freya @ 17:
Next week it will become obvious to the world that they were lied to by representatives of the Bush Administration. It was expedient for the Bush delegation to appear to give in and get the hell out of Bali. These are not honest brokers that the World is dealing with, and unfortunately everything that John Bolton said was not pulled out of his backside.
BushCo LLC will sandbag this whole process and push it off onto the next Administration just as they will with the Iraq mess and claim all acts of obfuscations as moral victories.
We are witnessing nothing less than organized crime disguised as representative government. The Bush cabal has utter contempt for our Federal Government and even greater contempt for international laws and treaties. The Bullies are pissing in the sandbox again!
This man will never make a lucid, intelligent comment or assertion. That's how he makes his living, and the money is also very good. You bet!
JOHN BOLTON IS NOT A FUCKING AMBASSADOR! Never was, never will be. He was a representative to the UN that was recess appointed. Stop calling him by a title he never had.
I think it's pretty telling that Fux pays this monkey to spout bushie talking points. The guy has the TV presence of wall paper paste, and the intellectual honesty of, well, of John Bolton. It's hard to get worse than that. The telling part of this is that poor wittle Johny doesn't have a real job any more, so the RNC sets it up so he can go on the repug propaganda network so he can afford his millionaire lifestyle. That, my friends, is pure welfare for the rich.
Can someone pleeeeeze explain to me how is it that the 27%'ers like Bolton and his ilk somehow still maintain a chokehold on everyone else and remain in power?! We may know he's full of shit but the fact remains he's still talking and people are listening and BushCo is still in power! Pelosi and the rest of the Keystone Dems are still, true to historical form, about as useful and effective as a bag of smashed assholes! How is it that these underwear stains like Bolton, Limburger or whatever-the-hell-hiz-name-iz, Michelle "My-Mouth-Is-A-Sperm-Recepticle" Malkin, and Ann "Shhh! I'm a man!" Coulter still get airtime? No, really......please! Someone explain this to me.
"the only major industrialized country to reject the Kyoto treaty" - unfortunately up here in Canada we have a neo conservative government which has acted in the best interest of Alberta oil than the will of the electorate - Kyoto is just a memory here
Al Gore is picking up a Nobel Prize. John Bolton is on wingnut welfare. Which one is really isolated?
I'm not really surprised. When France elected Sarkozy, many right wingers said : France is coming back in the concert of nations, France is tired of being isolated…
Those guys have a really personal notion of isolation. It reminds me of the famous headline in a british newspaper : "Fog over the Channel. Continent isolated." (well, I'm not sure the quote is exact, but you get the idea)
When will his mustache take over the rest of his face,(preferably his mouth) so we don't have to hear him spew such nonsense?
Bolton should be left on a melting arctic ice floe, the killer whales would mistake his wrinkly bag ass walrus face for the real thing (big fat juicy WALRUS, YUM), slap him around in the air with their tales before taking a few bites and leaving his rancid tasting bloody ass to freeze in the ocean.
greg @ 58:
Actually, for once Harper is right, if not for the wrong reasons though. Kyoto is a joke and will do nothing and that is the reason given for Canada not supporting it. The Kyoto Protocols will do nothing to reduce emissions. What it does, is it allows polluting businesses to buy credits from non-polluting businesses, and thus on paper, nobody pollutes. It does NOTHING. It's a joke. I know something HAS to be done about global warming, but Kyoto isn't it.
So basically the US agreed to agree but only if everyone else agreed not to mention any real numbers or facts so the US could continue with it's head up it's ass and as soon as they left the conference they noted the "serious doubts" they have about the agreement. Which means as soon as they're back on home turf they'll be telling the world what a crock it all is and how they HAVE to reject it because it's bad for business.
57 SpankyTheMonkey@57
Can someone pleeeeeze explain to me how is it that the 27%’ers like Bolton and his ilk somehow still maintain a chokehold on everyone else and remain in power?! We may know he’s full of shit but the fact remains he’s still talking and people are listening and BushCo is still in power! Pelosi and the rest of the Keystone Dems are still, true to historical form, about as useful and effective as a bag of smashed assholes! How is it that these underwear stains like Bolton, Limburger or whatever-the-hell-hiz-name-iz, Michelle “My-Mouth-Is-A-Sperm-Recepticle” Malkin, and Ann “Shhh! I’m a man!” Coulter still get airtime? No, really……please! Someone explain this to me.
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It's simple. These are true believers, and they are paid handsomely for it. But, here we are talking millions of dollars. It got nothing to do with religion. that is just a front, facade, whatever. Now, do they really believe what they say? Of course not!
But the money is fucking good. Who gives a rat ass how many soldiers, Iraqians, poor people without health care, banckrupt home owners, ete, etc died if I have $10.000.000 in my bank account? Ask O'reily, Limbaugh, Fuck News.
Bolton was a participant, if not a leader of the groups which interrupted the vote count in Florida. Remember those "irated" American citizens breaking into the offices and stopping the ballot count.
Did you notice how often Bolton has been "rewarded" by his Government?
The thing is, years ago, the Illuminati, or call it what a fuck you want, realized that Bush was the perfect stooge to install as a president on the United States and therefore he will give them the great opportunity to loot the country's Treasury.
Think of Hoffa, AFL-CIO, its pension fund and the Mafia penetrating it. This is politics. This this a big time planned conspiracy.
Exxon's share were $29.oo in the first war with Iraq, Exxon's climbed t $30.oo Second war with Iraq, Exxon's shares cost $91.oo as of 14 December 2007.
I don't post as much as I used to, because, I noticed, not only on this blog, that there are plenty of Americas that do not understand what really took place in America in 2 November 2000. They just haven't got it. It hasn't dawned on them.
Fucking sad.
"Lead, follow or get out of the way." -- Thomas Paine
The delegate from Papua New Guinea chose his words with care. It's ironic that most Americans don't recognize the words of perhaps the most revolutionary thinker of the American Revolution.
Garcia:
I have to agree with almost everything you offer except that the "irate" citizens wearing Gucci loafers and Ralph Lauren Polo shirts were allowed to come in.
Before 11-2-00 Halliburton was under Chapter 11 protection when it was revealed that under Cheney the company overstated its earnings.
Now Halliburton is doing quite well thank you due to many open ended no-bid cost plus contracts with the Pentagon.
The Carlyle Group had assets in the $millions prior to 11-2-00, now they have holdings in the $billions.
India 1.67 ton of carbon per person,USA 20 tons per person.
And you wonder why Fox News viewers seem so, uh, uninformed. What an upside down world they live in.
Europe isolated?
Um, as I recall the European Union is larger both in numbers and GDP than the US, and that is not even all of Europe.
Then again, with people thinking Europe is a country, there is not much helping them.
"Well, it’s not unusual for Vice President Gore to be wrong, either, as he is in this case"
Fuck you, John.
The coming global depression will cut carbon emissions more than a treaty will. When the Soviet Union collapsed, how much was it that carbon emissions dropped? Quite dramtic, from what i read.
'Norse @ # 70'
EU Population 495 million ( approx)
GDP(ppp) $ 14.9 trillion ( approx)
US Population 303 million ( approx)
GDP ( ppp) $ 13.2 ( approx)
BOLTON is confused.
"Just check out our approval ratings overseas. They’re abysmal."
The whole PNAC crowd don't care about approval ratings. They rule the world through sheer bullying and when called to account they cite the goodwill earned by preceding generations of Americans. Seems to me a doomed enterprise.
"my name is john bolton Im with the buch/cheney team and Im hear to stop the recount"
The fox news chump who asks how much the conference is costing made me laugh, this is the same news network who cheer lead the Iraq bottomless pit quagmire which is litrelly bleeding the US dry each and every day, what dick head.
Give $100 to Kucinich today: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.aspx?X=aDlDFFT...
So if I'm an ill-informed idiot, can I too get a job at Fox News?
I swear, Bolton made at least 3 FLAT-OUT LIES in that segment (about the US commitment to climate change, how other countries "agree" with the Bush Administration's stance, and the Bush Administrations record on diplomacy with Europe). I would say they were just mis-statements but he KNOW'S better. And then the question on the end on why have it in Bali was ridiculous. The UN specifically wanted it in a 3rd world nation (and outside the US in particular) and Indonesia has been trying to take the lead on green energy. THAT'S why it's there you freaking morons!
Those Fox News anchors should just do what they do best... stand there and look pretty. When they open their mouths, it makes them ugly!
Even the caption is extremely biased. Gore didnt lash out at the US, he criticized Bush's global warming policy. there is a big difference
thats a good attitude. The US can't lead, it can't even agree to get people to the table. Why?
Cause they are being isolated totalitarians and converting the country to hated fill fascists state where a paranoid populace can be convinced to go to war with ANYONE.
Please, US, get out of the way and let the adults talk, if you don't wanna fix the shithole you call a country, don't, but we are not going to let you kill the planet on us.
This is the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea website. I think that an kudos to their email address is in order.
http://www.pm.gov.pg/
pmsmedia@pm.gov.pg
Once again he proves to American why he didn't get congressional approval for other than his part time job as United Nations court jester.
If anyone's isolated it's the Europeans? Yes the entire continent is "isolated." Why not be more honest and take it a step further... "if anyone's isolated it's nearly the whole world."
Who would know more about being wrong then a Bushie?
STOP George @ 33:
Was going to comment on the same thing. What a hoot.
americangoy @ 7:
The latest is to accept climate change but to deny that the primary causes are man-made. This allows us to exploit where possible, while maintaining the position that there's nothing to be done to stop it.
Here's the bottom line....Republicans know their voters are idiots, that only respond to low brow 'shock & awe' soundbyte fests, filled with 9/11 was bad, I'll torture everyone - even my own mother, etc, etc....
The GOP refused to take Global Warming on as a result of their science hating platform (they run on in the Southeast, Midwest)...so now that they've missed the boat, they're trying to tear the anchor off and sink it...with the help of Big Oil & Old energy financing their campaigns of disinformation, after all the GOP is the biggest beneficiary and they are the Big Oil pimps, ExxonMobil which is the richest corporation since the Roman Empire & they have spent more on disinformation than R&D in the last 10 years...if that isn't enough for you...forget it
Seriously, anyone that listens to economists over scientists don't have any more room in their heads for more holes....
I think history will look back and see that short statement by the representative from Papua New Guinea as the moment the world was saved. "Lead or get out of the way" is exactly what everyone at the conference thought of the US.
At least brother Al's a better groomer.
Bolton....another arrogant prick.
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