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John Bolton: Obama needs additional 'schooling'

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Posted by ryuge 2009-04-05 02:31|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 BOLTON: I was shocked at how poor his knowledge of history is. If he thinks tensions between Europe and the United States are of recent vintage, particularly during the Bush administration, he really needs some additional schooling.

If you go back to the time of the Revolution, there have been differences between Europeans and Americans very reminiscent of things we've seen in more recent years. If you read the diaries and letters of the British and American top political and military leaders in World War II, they were at each other's throats. Lord Allenbrook, the British commander, didn't think Dwight Eisenhower was fit to be Supreme Commander or Americans were fit to fight.

This goes back and forth all the time. The idea that, suddenly, he's going to change this as a matter of attitude is itself a form of arrogance on his part.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-04-05 09:42|| 2009-04-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#2 I really respect John Bolton. One take away from this I gathered is how funny it is to see muzzie-crazy Iran cozy up to one of the most atheistic regimes on the planet for technological reasons. They call us the great satan though we are of the book while the Norks are not. Not only is iranian leadership bat-shit crazy they are also huge hypocrites.

Posted by Broadhead6 2009-04-05 11:49|| 2009-04-05 11:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Not Barry's fault! He missed a lot of history and Social Studies lessons while tied to a tree at Menteng Primary School. Deciplinary troubles, kissing girls, trying to escape, etc. LINK

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-05 12:03|| 2009-04-05 12:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Bambi needs more than additional schooling. He needs to recognize the need for more schooling. In many ways he reminds me of my middle school (6th, 7th and 8th grade) students. They are all convinced they have all the knowledge they need. Bambi is very much in that mindset. He acts and thinks as though he has all the answers; and like my students (who are enabled in their delusion by their parents) he is enabled by all those "supporters" that he has chosen to surround himself.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-04-05 12:33|| 2009-04-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

#5 How can the president possibly need more schooling, WolfDog? Did he not teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago, one of the premier tertiary institutions in the nation? That fact alone proves his mastery of all that one needs to know about anything!

Just like your middle schoolers. :-(

Posted by trailing wife in Buffalo 2009-04-05 14:15|| 2009-04-05 14:15|| Front Page Top

#6 I'd settle for a kick in the ass. Maybe two just to drive home the point.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-05 14:21|| 2009-04-05 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 I was shocked at how poor his knowledge of history is.

Why be shocked. This was known last year. Barack Obamas Reading List

ompare to Bushs'.

Posted by ed 2009-04-05 16:34|| 2009-04-05 16:34|| Front Page Top

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