Please, Stay Home
- From: Gordon <independent@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:28:00 -0500
[...just what we need, the peckerwood going out and pissing even more
countries off. I have to keep telling myself...it'll all be over
soon.]
Former President Bill Clinton caused a bit of a stir recently when he
suggested Hillary Clinton, if elected, would send her husband and H.W.
Bush around the world to help repair the United States' image after
seven years of deteriorating global standing. (Bush 41 reportedly
isn't interested.)
In light of Clinton's comments, Bush was asked at a White House press
conference last week if he would consider a "goodwill mission to
restore the country's good name abroad." The president said, "That's
what I do during my presidency. I go around spreading goodwill and
talking about the importance of spreading freedom and peace." He
didn't appear to be kidding.
In either case, it wasn't an off-hand comment -- the president is
apparently planning some road-trips.
President George W. Bush's diplomatic passport will acquire a slew
of new country stamps during his final year in office as he tries to
rebuild the U.S.'s international standing and create a foreign-policy
legacy beyond Iraq.
The president plans trips to the Middle East, Africa, Asia and
South America, which would make 2008 his busiest year abroad. While
his major domestic initiatives may get stalled by a Democratic
majority in Congress and the gridlock caused by election-year
politics, he still has an opportunity to exert his influence overseas.
[...]
While the president will strive to strengthen alliances, it won't
come at the expense of continuing to prosecute the war on terror, said
Jim Jeffrey, the deputy White House national security adviser.
"We want to be well-perceived in the world," Jeffrey said in an
interview. "But more importantly, we want to formulate policies that
will protect the American people."
With all due respect to Bush and his team, maybe we'll be
"well-perceived in the world" if the president stays home and changes
his policies, instead of traveling abroad and keeping his existing
policies? Just throwing that out there.
?Steve Benen
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