FLASHBACK: Obama questions Bolton's 'temperament'
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Channel: Washington Free Beacon · 2013 · News & Politics
The White House is calling it a "new low" to criticize the temperament of defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel -- but President Obama did just the same during the 2005 confirmation hearings of former Ambassador John Bolton. "I think that there are some people on this committee who are genuinely struggling with trying to get a sense of whether this person's temperament or his veracity is such that it would justify placing him in such a sensitive position," then Sen. Obama said of Bolton in a April 19, 2005 hearing.
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