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Oh man, Newsweek. We were all prepared to just ignore this, to make it die, because JESUS, but the copy editors closed the deal nicely with this subhed: “Peace Partners: Bush and Obama could play good-cop, bad-cop with Israel.” OH COME ON. Fine, here’s a quick mockery of your broke magazine’s pornographic web-dung.
Many Israelis, especially led by their current right-wing government, would readily trust that policies advanced by Bush had their best interests at heart, and he would not abandon them.
Of course, this is all just a fantasy. Bush isn’t about to become anybody’s envoy, let alone promote Obama’s agenda. And Obama wouldn’t squander the capital he has accrued from Arabs and Muslims by making Bush his front man. (After all, what rendered Bush popular in Israel rendered him unpopular in the rest of the Middle East.)
But, as odd as it sounds, channeling Bush wouldn’t be such a bad thing. To help get Israelis behind the new American president, it would behoove the White House to show more urgency on the Iranian threat—and to openly press Arab countries for their own concessions, such as more diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. Having collected political capital, it’s time Obama began spending it.
Great! Shut up.
This thing, here: “And Obama wouldn’t squander the capital he has accrued from Arabs and Muslims by making Bush his front man.” Correct! Let’s make it even simpler: It would be cosmically retarded for Barack Obama to MAKE *GEORGE W. BUSH* HIS FRONT MAN AND POSTER BOY FOR AMERICAN PRESENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, and it will never happen, so please just… just… meh.
Obama Should Send Bush to Mideast [Newsweek]
What were they thinking?
What they don’t think everyone in the Mideast hates us enough?
Does Bill Kristol work for Newsweek , now?
And the Slatification of Newsweek is complete. Thanks Meacham.
In the History of Bad Ideas, this one should get its very own chapter.
No mention, of course, of the fact that appointing Bush to any position besides Extra-Special Ambassador to Uranus would place Obama firmly in the negative, “political capital”-wise, among US Americans.
jeez louise, some people should be careful about the drugs they take. as for good-cop bad-cop, it’d be more like good-cop stupid-cop, and i for one may speak for many when i say i’ve had enough of stupid-cop, doesn’t he have a barbecue to go to?
Its in Newsweek’s contract with the Mossad. They have to publish a specified volume of pro-Israel propaganda, or the next payment is withheld, and they are denounced as anti-semitic by the Bnai Brith.
Send his sorry ass to Baghdad where it fucking belongs.
Totally OT,
but the flag-pin thing is getting gh3yer by the second.
I mean, really, why should the president of any given country HAVE to wear a pin of said country’s flag at all times? What, so just in case you forgot what country he was president of it would be there to remind you? What next? STICKY-NAMETAGS and SHARPIIE markers?
Redundant flag-pin is redundant.
I think Bush would be most effective if someone strapped an ACME rocket on his back and lit the fuse.
“Obama should make Dr. Jack Kevorkian the New Surgeon General, Bernie Madoff the new Federal Reserve Chairman, and Jenna Jameson the New First Lady.
Of course, this is all just a fantasy.”
OR it could be a special ploy by N00bama to put W in the Middle East so that, whatever happens, people REALLY CAN blame W and not him.
BRILLIANT!
I mean, like, come on, in honor of our brave troops fightin’ so hard to defend our precious liberties that we have and that we so treasure, lets just acknowledge that the writer is a former Likud speechwriter and in all likelihood still on staff.
They have to fill those
12530 pages every week somehow.Here’s another one: make Richard Reid, the Shoe Bomber, head of TSA!
GreatOldOnesParty: Hi! My name is Barack!
Atheist Nun: I object to Jenna Jameson and hereby nominate Shyla Stylez.
TGY: Along with electing him president. Oh, and I guess making him president the first time counts, too.
Seriously, he should be condemned to wander through the streets of Baghdad carrying a large plastic turkey on a tray, and “You’re Welcome” in Arabic tattooed on his forehead, pulling a cart full of pork rinds and non-alcoholic beer until History gives him the recognition he so richly thinks he deserves.
Anyway, since Jebus didn’t return and rapture Bush and his buddies up during the endless 8 years of his preznitcy, Georgie doesn’t give a ratcrap about Israel anymore. So there!
OR it could be an instance of an adult handing a child a broom and dustpan and then pointing at the vase the young whipper-snapper just broke from running around unrestrained in the house for the last EIGHT YEARS.
FTFA: To help get Israelis behind the new American president
….
keep sending them the planes, bombs, guns and money like we have forever.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
See, Barry, this is what comes of not prosecuting all their sorry asses.
Coming up next in Newsweek- “Why Obama Should Make George W. Bush Head of Fema”
GreatOldOnesParty: Amen.
Envoy to the middle east? How about envoy to Burger King.
You know, I’m all for teh Izrul (only secular democracy in the Middle East, made the desert bloom and whatnot). But I don’t see how we have to kiss their asses, EVER. They’re OUR client state, not the other way around. We can make nicey with the various Ay-rabs, to keep our oil supplies all juicy, and slow down the terruh, and Israel can suck it if they don’t like it.
I think they meant to use “Shoe In” for the title.
HEll YEA!! George W. Bush, dressed in his jet flyin’ suit with the cods all pumped up, four cases Jack Daniels half gallons, some toot and let the love begin. He could have Anna Comeonandpour as his embedded news hack and drinkin’ buddie. No, no wait, make it a task team and include Carl Rove, The Dick Cheney, Donnie Rumsfeld and a reinforced company of Blackwater troopies for security. Sic’em George W., nows yer chance to be a real live hero…..UUAAHH!!
So isn’t there a rule at Newsweek against submitting your fifth-grader’s homework as your own work? That’s the only rational excuse I can think of for such idiocy.
GreatOldOnesParty: Oh, no doubt about it, I am behind the Porn curve… Just be glad I didn’t reference ‘Linda Lovelace.’
You’re either with us or we’ll bomb the shit out of you.
To be perfectly fair, there is nothing that is popular with Israel that will be popular with the Arabs. Also, the only way to know that you are doing the right thing in the Middle East is when you have everyone seriously pissed off at you. Like, all sides should be telling you what an asshole you are, from Likkud to Hamas. THEN you have clearly found the right strategy.
What would be a really good idea would be to name Dubya Special Envoy to Texas and maybe all the Southern States.
God knows Obama needs help getting through to the hearts and minds of the people of the red neck. Dubya speaks their language and can be an interpreter.
Make Bush envoy to Palau so he can keep an eye on those Wee-gers.
Employing bush as an envoy to ANY nation would be proof positive that America’s national IQ has hit an all-time low. The world would be sure the national IQ is most certainly in line with that of the birthers, tea-baggers and the regular fox news watchers.
facehead: bush isn’t qualified to EVEN be named envoy to the Special Olympics! Those retarded athletes can THINK circles around bush……..
Print journalism - it isn’t brain-dead, it just smells that way.
Wow, Israel must have a lot of brush that needs to be cut.
Perhaps this is just a scheme to bolster shoe sales in the middle east.
Send Jr. on a beer run.
Jr.’s popularity is at an all time HIGH in the Middle East right now, send him, Laura won’t mind.
Hooray For Anything: Well, he did have to skip the Repub Convention in Saint Paul last summer so he could monitor the delivery of port-a-potties to the Gulf Coast.
Sounds like someone wanted to drum up some quick page views!
Obama should have Bush buried in sand up to his neck by Navy Seals-somewhere secret in the middle east- and then announce that the first person to find him wins some prize. You’ll have to bring some of his teeth to the local American embassy, to identify him. I think the middle east could really get into that. Is that what they mean by front man?
rocktonsammy: I don’t think I’d trust him not to fuck up a beer run.
AnnieGetYourFun: You forgot hummus; liked the world over.
I say give Bush a sex change and drop him, nude, into the poppy fields of Afghanistan.
Maybe he’ll be assassinated? Or given a “Mission Accomplished” party by Bin Laden?
Zhu Bajie
Has anyone seriously read Newsweek outside of a doctor’s/dentist’s office in the last 25 years?
I might be mnetioned that there is one president who actually negotiated a successful peace treay in the Middle East and who’s still flying around the world making peace deals, but AIPAC thinks he’s anti-semetic so forgot it.
Actually, if Bubbles the Chimp is not still in mourning for Micheal Jacko, it might make more sense to send the Real Thing.
Also, Bubbles would work cheaper, and more credibly represent the United States of America in that troubled region . . . .
Obama IS going to make W his special ambassador to Buffalo, NY.
LOLz
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?
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Chronic lying as career path or intellectual prostitution for paycheck?
Gravel Kucinich Paul Nader McKinney Ventura Sheehan Kaptur.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Poodles, Puppets, Sham debates, Scam elections.
9/11 liars, AIPAC liars, Federal Reserve liars.
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil?
Greed & corruption or conscience?
Leaks from Whistleblowers.
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This is going to spoil K-Lo’s dream of Bush becoming a high school social studies teacher.