The blog that I am writing about right now is another one of Sam Stein’s from the Huffington Post. It is entitled “Bolton as McCain’s Secretary of State?”
Sam Stein is saying that former UN ambassador John Bolton could be his secretary of state if McCain is elected President of the United States. According to this blog John McCain was behind the scenes in getting Bolton appointed to ambassador to the UN. Bolton said ‘He (McCain) though I was the type of ambassador that ought to represent in the United States in the United Nations.’ The blog earlier said that Bolton had anti-UN polities and statements against the organization that McCain thought Bolton would fit in perfectly. The appointment of Bolton was very controversial and was fought by then democratic minority in congress.
These comments by Bolton were apart of the Conservative Political Action Conference and were made on Friday. On Wednesday Mitt Romney used this conference to drop out of the republican race but Mike Huckabee used the conference to say that he was in the race for the foreseeable future. Bolton also supported McCain by bashing the two democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. It is an old rule in politics if you can’t get your numbers up you attempt to get your opponent’s numbers down. The rumors of Bolton being McCain’s choice for potential secretary of state were finally verbalized by Bolton’s introductory speaker who called Bolton a ‘warrior of light and our next Secretary of State.’
The blog can be found at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/08/bolton-as-mccains-secret_n_85760.html.
-Ryan Damon
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