An Excellent Pick for the UN

Meaning the Administration will completely ignore him. Danforth is a polar opposite of Negroponte and should be a rather deft negotiator at the UN–well if he is given the ability to do the job.

2 thoughts on “An Excellent Pick for the UN”
  1. Isn’t this the same guy who fought tooth-and-nail for Clarence Thomas to be nominated? Who threatened – in the face of a defeat of Thomas’ nomination – a return to those days before the Civil Rights era?

  2. He actually took responsibility for that in his book and said he was mislead. It was quite an admission. Don’t get me wrong, he’s more conservative than I, but he is a reasonable foreign policy guy–sort of like Dick Lugar.

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