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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How did this clown become the GOP nominee last election cycle?
Go away McCain and take your stupid daughter with you!!!
The Israelis don’t trust him. Netanyahu wouldn’t give him the time of day. And the Palestinians don’t want peace with Israel.
McCain is out of his depth on the Middle East.
we know who the stupidest person in the room is.
Bill had 8 years to miserably fail in the Mid East and now John wants to extend that winning streak.
Amen.
Probably thanks to the same "machine" that wants Romney to be the candidate this time around.
How did this clown become the GOP nominee last election cycle?
The MSM chose him for us, kinda like they're choosing Mittens for us this go around.
That would be a room with McCain, Obama, and Clinton. Right? Or is John being perverse, encouraging Bill to invade Hillary’s fief? After all, Bill did such a bang-up job with Haiti that Jimmah Caatah is down there building houses now.
McCin has lost what little mind he had left.
How did Arizona return this turkey to the Senate?
Bill Clinton to help in the Middle East? he had 8 years to do just that.Why doesn’t McCain ask Jimmy Carter to go there too.
Two failures have to be better than one.In fact lets send all three —One Way. Let them go there and stay there we would be better off.
More like the horniest guy in the room.
Bill wants to be part of a Mideast piece role.
PS Take your fat mouthy daughter with you.
I honestly can't add anything to that completely true statement. BTT.
I hate a lot of politicians....but McCain is near the top.
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