Looks like Bill Richardson is taking his Obama surrogacy
overseas. According to this report in the Egyptian
press, Richardson met with Egyptian president Hosny Mubarak and the country's
foreign minister this week, as well as with the head of the Arab League--mostly just spouting "criticism of US foreign policy on the Middle East during the past eight years
of the George Bush administration and [saying] that he appreciated Egyptian and other
Arab concerns over the situation in Iraq and the fate of the Arab-Israeli
struggle."
Despite the obvious pandering, the Arabs weren't too
impressed: "Richardson
shared no clear or concrete proposals to remedy the harm done during the Bush years,"
officials complained. Maybe he's a good
Obama surrogate after all!
--Zvika Krieger