Kit Bond (R-Idiot): Clinton's trip was “half a bad step instead of a full bad step.”

[seafan]

“I think it sends the wrong message to continue to talk to them and treat them as a responsible country when they haven’t acted like a responsible country,” Sen. Kit Bond (Mo.), the senior Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said before the release of the two journalists was announced.

Bond said sending Clinton was a “halfway” compromise to Obama sitting down with Kim himself, describing Clinton’s trip as “half a bad step instead of a full bad step.”

Shut up, you idiot.


Barack Obama's administration didn't trade arms for hostages.







KCNA via KNS/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A photograph released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-il posing with former President Bill Clinton and his delegation in Pyongyang on Tuesday. Link








Former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore (R) embraces former U.S. President Bill Clinton after Clinton's arrival with freed U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in Burbank, California, August 5, 2009. Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jon-il to gain the freedom of the two journalists who had been held in North Korea since March, 2009. Ling and Lee work for Current TV, which was co-founded by Gore. Reuters


Lisa Ling (L) hugs freed U.S. journalist Euna Lee (gray sweater) as former Vice-President Al Gore (R) hugs freed journalist Laura Ling (2nd R) in Burbank, California August 5, 2009. Ling and Lee were released by North Korea after being held there since March, 2009. Lee's daughter Hana Saldate looks towards camera. Reuters



Welcome home. The prayers of many, many people have been answered.

[WI_DEM]

1. And Bond is a total idiot--not a half idiot.

[Mass]

2. May be he should say that to the family of the two women. Idiot.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. I wish he'd say that to these women's families.

The fact is, Republicans wanted to do nothing and either hope that they were freed, or simply take the chance that they would never be released. And in reality, I think most of us know that they probably would have preferred the latter since their release undercuts tensions between the two sides and lessens any chance of actual conflict -- which is still their ultimate goal.

[ejpoeta]

4. and i am sure if it were bond's family over there.... he would just let them sit there

and rot because we don't talk to anyone we don't agree with. imagine if reagan hadn't talked to gorbechev... after all, we were in the cold war and they were our enemies. but was that different??? he talked to gobechev, and we didn't have people imprisoned there, did we?? these jerks make me sick. instead of being happy to see a good outcome out of this, they have to piss all over everything because it was under a dem's watch... and clinton was involved.

[Ishoutandscream2]

20. Bond and his ilk lack empathetic or sympathetic skills

If it happens to someone else, then big whoop. But, if it happens to them, well...that's a different story.

[graywarrior]

5. The republicans are so anti-good it's almost hilarious.

Voldemorts, the whole lot of them.

[liberal N proud]

6. Just because there were no bombs dropped

War monger!

[alsame]

7. Out of touch, again. The whole country is rejoicing at this outcome and

the GOP is criticizing.

[MADem]

8. I really would love to know just how Kit Bond can breathe

with his head jammed so far up his ass? What a trick!

:rofl:

Fucking loser!! WHINER! Let's all SING Kit's Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZGAeoEng8

[Botany]

9. @ one time the republicans had smart people in it .....

Ike
Scranton
Chuck Percy
Margaret Smith
Teddy Roosevelt
Dirkson
Rockefeller
My Dad
Goldwater

now you might not like all their views but they were smart men and women ...... Kit Bond running his mouth now shows why his party is failing.



2009

[seafan]

12. Thanks for posting that map, botany. That's another terrific piece of news this week.

Now, if we can mobilize everyone to push for single payer for the next 5-6 weeks, instead of a pretty-please public option that's *not weakened too much*, and instead of *co-ops* that are a flimsy sham, we might just light the fire.





Gallup

[Autumn]

10. Can't we trade that idiot for 3lbs of sewage

from North Korea? It seems we would be getting the best part of the trade.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. I guess only a 'responsible country' would invade another based on lies and kill a million people.

[Hepburn]

13. Dear Jerk Bond:

FUCK YOU!!

:grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad: :grr: :mad:

Sincerely,

HEPBURN of the DU

PS: ESAD.

[TexasObserver]

14. Kit Bond is an idiot. Always has been.

[BattyDem]

15. So his position is ...

it was a bad step (or half a bad step) to negotiate the release of two American hostages in a peaceful manner.

Ooooookay. :eyes:

[kestrel91316]

16. Yeah. The right thing to do would have been to nuke NK back to the

Stone Age.

Yep. That would work.

Damned hostages aren't real Amurkins anyway. Just look at those slanty eyes.

[samsingh]

17. repubs are miserable failures that should shut up and wilt away

they are pieces of shit that should be flushed down the toilet

[City Lights]

18. Do the letters "F O" mean anything to you, Kit?

Your sour grapes are showing.

[JBoy]

19. What kind of dork willingly goes by the name "Kit"?

"Kit" played second fiddle to David Hasselhoff. 'nuf said.

[DCKit]

21. Watch it "Boy".

It's a cowboy thing.