I promised you this morning that CPAC 2009 would deliver the crazy and they have not disappointed. Former interim UN Ambassador John Bolton delivered a speech about the threat of a nuclear Iran.
“The fact is on foreign policy I don’t think President Obama thinks it’s a priority,” said Bolton. “He said during the campaign he thought Iran was a tiny threat. Tiny, tiny depending on how many nuclear weapons they are ultimately able to deliver on target. Its, uh, its tiny compared to the Soviet Union, but is the loss of one American city” – here Bolton shrugged his shoulders impishly – “pick one at random – Chicago – is that a tiny threat?”
Bolton wasn’t the only one who thought this was funny. The room erupted in laughter and applause.
What good are our nuclear weapons if they cannot even deter Iran from setting off a rudimentary nuclear device in one of our cities? Bolton doesn’t say. Instead, he and the CPAC lunatics revel in the fantasy of seeing all the liberals of Chicago get taught a lesson in the wisdom of more preemptive war. Bolton also argued that Obama would abandon Israel if they were attacked.
Then there was Cliff Kincaid (ironically, the head of Accuracy in Media) who, while introducing Rep. Mike Pence, once again raised questions about whether Barack Obama is really a natural born U.S. citizen and called him a communist. Rep. Pence did not correct him.
Sam Joe the Plumber was in attendence and said he misses plumbing even though he isn’t and never was a plumber.
And then anti-immigrant zealot Tom Tancredo unsurprisingly panned anchor baby Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal speech and said it was ‘the nail in the coffin’ of any presidential aspirations Jindal might have had. I’m sure Tancredo’s opinion is objective and not tainted in any way by his deep-seated racism.
And all this is but a sample of the crazy that was on display today. <p.
One day down…two to go.
