Posted on 11/08/2011 4:55:32 PM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - Republican Senator John McCain has some advice for President Barack Obama to help energize stalled Middle East peacemaking: Put former President Bill Clinton in charge.
Democrat Bill Clinton, husband of Obama's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is always "the smartest guy in the room" and so would he be in a roomful of Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, McCain told the Reuters Washington summit on Tuesday.
The Republican presidential nominee in 2008 who lost to Obama, McCain said Clinton had credibility with both Israelis and Palestinians and had come the closest of anyone to producing peace.
That was an apparent reference to the 2000 Camp David talks between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat, the late head of the Palestinian Authority.
"I believe that the president should call in the one person who has a chance of negotiating, having both sides negotiate with good faith, and that's one Bill Clinton," McCain said.
"I would ask him to take on the role of the president's special envoy, mediator, potentate, whatever you want to call it because he's the person that came the closest and he's the person that has the most credibility," McCain told Reuters.
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Agreed. He is also smarter than the electorate that put him in office twice.
He needs to ride off into the sunset...NOW!!!
Probably the most intelligent man in the room most of the time.
He is also the most corrupt man in the room, and the most destructive to our country.
How John McCain managed to fool Arizona's voters one last time is beyond me. The 20 million dollars he used to smear JD Hayworth probably had something to do with it.
Too bad he couldn't be trouble to go after Obama the way he went after Hayworth.
IMHO McCain has some serious dirt in his past is always under the threat of being blackmailed if he crosses a line against the Democrats.
Like daughter like father
Need to ask the RNC, but imo that’s why Repubs lost. In hindsight Repubs are better off today than had McCain been elected.
New International Version (©1984)
He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
Daniel 8:25
He wants the IDIOT who entertained the terrorist ARAFAT in our White House HOW MANY TIMES???????????????? 100? 200?
What in the hell is going on with mccain?
Is he someone we don't know at all?
Why not John Bolton?
Or why not Ms. Rice?
Why not a GROWN UP?
McCain-you ARE getting more and more like your daughter every single day.
Man.............PATHETIC!
Because Repubican primary voters are as dumb as he is, and I believe they will prove to be dumb again in 2012.
McClinton. Ass-kissing piece of crap! He inspired zero excitement in 2008 (outside of picking Sarah) and is even worse now!
Maybe this would be Clinton’s 3rd term in office that he was babbling about today, that President’s should be able to run for 3 terms. Please LORD come quickly, it’s getting harder and harder to deal with such dumbies. I really have to wonder where they left their brains, oops, sorry, they had brains, but just NO COMMON SENSE!
It was Bill that brought the old monster Arafat out of exile in Tunisia.
“How did this clown become the GOP nominee last election cycle?”
Open primaries. The left gave us Juan.
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