Reply #5: He's disgusting but effective for the mob

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Baker summoned him to Florida. They got their best thug for the job. They pay their hitmen well. His reward...the UN...and now his job is to wreck it.

I was incredulous as it happened, rereading this stuff I'm even more incredulous. How the hell did we allow this to happen to us? The Fairness Doctrine and FCC Deregulation. That's when they got their chokehold on the truth. We had a coup and the winger media lied about it.

I wonder what Bolton had to say to Judy Miller when he visited her in jail? The guy is scary and revolting...with a very bad temper.


http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=2320


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Bolton was in South Korea when it became clear that the Nov. 7, 2000, election would be decided in Florida. At the behest of former Secretary of State James Baker, who fronted the Bush-Cheney team during the Florida fight, Bolton winged his way to Palm Beach, where he took the lead in challenging ballots during that county's recount. Then, when the ballots from around the state were transported to Tallahassee for the recount ordered by the state Supreme Court, Bolton followed them.

It was there that he personally shut down the review of ballots from Miami-Dade County, a populous and particularly contested county where independent reviews would later reveal that hundreds of ballots that could reasonably have been counted for Gore were instead discarded.

Miami-Dade County Elections Supervisor David Leahy argued at the time that 2,257 voters had apparently attempted to mark ballot cards for Gore or Bush but had not had them recorded because they had been improperly inserted into the voting machines. A hand count of those ballots revealed that 302 more of them would have gone for Gore than Bush. That shift in the numbers from just one of Florida's 67 counties would have erased more than half of Bush's 537-vote lead in the state.
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Bolton was a key player in the fight to delay the Florida count long enough to allow for the Supreme Court's intervention, and he got his reward quickly. Despite his record of making controversial and sometimes bizarre statements regarding international affairs, he was selected by the Bush administration in 2001 to serve as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control.
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