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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Whenever the left need someone republican to “sound reasonable “ they get mccain. THAT MAN IS A IDIOT! The only joy I get out of this is knowing Hilary is seething tonight as sec. of state.
Let her go with Clinton (snicker)
Really, it is kind of sad what has happened to McInsane. He was once a part of the Reagan Revolution, but no one was ever able to tell him he was losing his bearings.
Now, he is just a powerful, bitter old RINO with no one in his family or on his staff who has the guts to tell him the truth.
I will celebrate when they bury his sorry ass.
LLS
Hey McCain, you know what your legacy is going to be? It will be that you were spineless, valueless, traitor. And I don't give a rats arse about your military service! You put your name on legislation that would take away other Americans right to free speech! You only use that when you want to score points during your election bids with Vets!
You wretched old fool!
The only time Bill Clinton is the smartest guy in the room is when he’s in the bathroom. Alone.
If John McCain and Bill Clinton are in a room, than yes, Bill Clinton is the smartest person in the room.
The left funded three interchangable socialists, and shills for each one screamed only their candidate could beat Hillary/Obama, as they attempted to shoutdown anyone voting for an actual conservative.
How could you forget?
At the end of the day, I voted for Alan Keyes.
Sick Oh Phant does not come close to describing this man.
This is the guy Sarah Palin agreed to run with in 2008, and enthusiastically supported in 2010, right?
This is the guy Sarah Palin agreed to run with in 2008, and enthusiastically supported in 2010, right?
It was “his turn”.
How did this clown become the GOP nominee last election cycle?”””
Because the East Coast Elite Republicans in charge of the RNC gave him the chance.
It is the old game of :”It’s MY turn’.
Romney is running on the same assumption.
I am waiting for others to thump Romney in the primaries & then see what the RNC tells us about choosing a candidate.
At this point, I don’t think Bibi will give the USA a single heads up when he takes out Iran.
One thing for sure: there’s isn’t a room so small that John McCain is the smartest one in it
He is always the smartest guy in the room if always means “whenever he and McCain are alone together”.
What the senile mclame meant to say was “smarmiest” not smartest”. john, retire...you are a confused loser.
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