Holy Christ, this is a Newsweek "web exclusive" ...!!!???

[kpete]

Funniest Thing Published by a News Magazine in the History of News Magazines
Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet on July 29, 2009 at 4:45 PM.

Holy Christ, this is a Newsweek "web exclusive" ...

Stand In

Why Obama should make George W. Bush
his Mideast envoy.

Peace Partners: Bush and Obama could play good-cop, bad-cop with Israel
By Gregory Levey | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Jul 28, 2009

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On Sunday, George Mitchell, President Obama's Middle East envoy, arrived in Israel to confer with its leaders. Also visiting this week are Defense Secretary Robert Gates, national-security adviser James Jones, and Gulf States envoy Dennis Ross. It's a full-court press on the Israelis, and the American wish list is long. They want Israel to stop expanding settlements; to stop building Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem; and for hawks in the government to chill out while the U.S. is negotiating with Iran. And yet, odds are, they'll come back to Washington empty-handed, for reasons having to do as much with atmospherics as policy: Team Obama just doesn't have Israel's full trust.

But there is someone who does—someone who could use a job, someone who argued straightforwardly for a Palestinian state, and yet someone who has the implicit admiration and regard of Israel. President Obama needs a new envoy to the region who can get results—and George W. Bush is his man.

more:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/209174/page/1

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Who is Gregory Levey,

and what is wrong with him?

That has GOT to be a joke. It CANNOT be series............

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Hahahaha! If Obama did that, *my* confidence in Obama would plummet.

[Bleacher Creature]

3. When did the Onion take over Newsweek?

[Deja Q]

4. I forgot; what were George W Bush's results again?

[petronius]

5. I support this suggestion, simply because it would be the greatest example of

global mindfuckery in human history. Is there anyone on the planet whose head would not explode at this announcement?

[Buzz Clik]

9. That's true. Even al Qaida would start scrambling.

[MADem]

6. Probably because NEWSWEEK knows that people would wipe their asses on the print copy! nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. Also, if George W. Bush were appointed ANYTHING every other country's confidence in Obama would drop

WTF is this guy thinking? Who is this? I looked him up and I could only find a post declaring him to be stupider than Richard Cohen.

[Buzz Clik]

8. The Onion, right?

Either a joke or an exercise in insanity. Either way...

:rofl: :spray:

[sandnsea]

10. Click Whores

This can't be anything more than a drive for traffic to boost advertising rates.

[spanone]

11. i expect this from the onion

[charlie]

12. He's out of office. You don't have to PRETEND HE'S NOT AN IDIOT anymore!

Levey, check your inbox. I'm sure there's a mountain of backlogged memos you haven't read yet.

[carpetbagger]

13. Good article. Explains why Clinton was a good pick for State.

However, Bush will get results, only those results will be to see people flee to the protective arms of Hamas, Beijing, Putin, Sadr, and Khamenei.

[Historic NY]

14. WHAT to give him 4 more years to fuck it up..........absoltely guano.