Bush: Authoritarian

Posted at 9:06 am on Monday, August 1, 2005, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush.

Bush today utilized a recess appointment to appoint unfit John Boton as ambassador to the United Nations. Here is how Bush put it this morning…

So today I’ve used my constitutional authority to appoint John Bolton to serve as America’s Ambassador to the United Nations.

Source: The White House

And here is how Wikipedia defines authoritarianism…

The term authoritarian is used to describe an organization or a state which enforces strong and sometimes oppressive measures against the population, generally without attempts at gaining the consent of the population.

[...]

Authoritarianism often arises from the governing bodies’ presumption that they know what is right or wrong for the country and from intolerance of dissent. The government then enforces what it thinks is right, often with use of considerable force. Dissenting voices are ignored, or, more strikingly, are considered to be plotting against the best interests of the country.

Source: Wikipedia

And Bush continued…

I’m sending Ambassador Bolton to New York with my complete confidence.

Source: The White House

That’s a bad thing, right? (Very bad.)

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