Kristof: Ten suggestions for 'rescuing' Bush's legacy
RAW STORY
Published:
Sunday December 31, 2006
 New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof offers President Bush "ten suggestions for what you can do in 2007 to try to rescue your legacy," including encouraging Vice President "Dick Cheney to look pale in public" so that he can "resign on health grounds."
Aside from replacing Cheney, characterized as "the single worst influence on your foreign policy, as well as the most polarizing figure in your administration," Kristof also advises the president to "seriously engage Iraq's nastier neighbors, including Iran and Syria, and renounce permanent military bases in Iraq"; to "start an intensive effort to bring peace to the Middle East"; to "confront the genocide in Darfur"; to "revive the theme of compassionate conservatism by extending your excellent five-year AIDS program"' to "address climate change"; to "put aside those thoughts of a military strike on Iranian nuclear sites, and make it clear to Israel that we oppose it conducting such an attack"; to "address our disgraceful inequities in health care"; and to "revive the reform proposals that President Clinton urged in 1999," rather than just "giving up" on Social Security.
Kristof's last recommendation is to basically not blame the press.
"Tenth, don't toss this newspaper to the floor and curse the press for your unpopularity," Kristof writes. "Instead, borrow from your playbook after you lost the New Hampshire primary in 2000 -- grit your teeth, retool and steal ideas from your critics and rivals."
"It worked then, and it just might help in 2007," Kristof suggests to Bush.
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