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Obama Calls McCain?s Foreign Policy Ideas ?Naive?
2008-05-17 00:10:00 From the AP: Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called “naive and irresponsible,” serving notice that he’s ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign. Lumping McCain together with President Bush, Obama declared: “If they want ...
By: The Hot Joints
McCain Tries Outdated Scare Tactics
2008-05-16 06:47:00 On Thursday, John McCain bought into the standard Republican national security scare tactic. This signals a new low for McCain which lowers the bar further in what was supposed to be a ?respectful campaign? from the ?straight talk express?. ?All I can say is: If Senator Obama wants to sit down across the table from the leader of a country that calls Israel a stinking corpse, and comes to New York and says they're gonna, quote, ?wipe Israel off the map,? what is it that he wants to talk about? What is it that he wants to talk about with him?? If it was John McCain he would likely tell them to cut out the ?B.S.? According to the Huffington Post, McCain said in 2006, "One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, 'Stop the b*&ls*i^.'" We all know that this is not the type of foreign policy that McCain would pursue towards Iran. While on the campaign trail McCain was so enthused about the idea of bombing ...
Obama Adv: Obama Never Said He would Meet With Iran Without Precondition
2008-05-13 21:45:00 Thanks to Hot Air for pointing out the latest lies and distortions from the NY Times. In a piece about John McCain allegedly trying to tie Obama with Hamas, an outright lie is made by an Obama advisor. Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security Council official who is a foreign policy adviser ...
By: The Hot Joints
Lebanon: Yet Another Foreign Policy Opportunity Screwed Up by the Bush Admi
2008-05-12 03:09:00 In February 2005, shortly after the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, the pro-Syrian Lebanese government resigned. The day it happened, I warned against any stupid pro-American triumphalism: But whatever happens next in Lebanon, it would be a mistake to view it only through the lens of some kind of Middle Eastern “people power,” ...
President Kennedy's Foreign Policy
2008-05-06 07:04:00 From Real History Blog : Kennedy was inaugurated three days after Lumumba was killed in the Congo. Kennedy was known to be a supporter of Lumumba, and was devastated when he learned of his assassination.As Gerard Colby so brilliantly noted in "Thy Will Be Done": Within a month of Kennedy's election, some of Nelson [Rockefeller]'s closest allies ... were meeting in the White House's Cabinet Room or heading key offices in the new administration. Swiftly and quietly, they began implementing many of the changes in government structure and policy that Nelson advocated. This secret victory [for Rockefeller] was the outcome of Kennedy's inexperience. Kennedy had spent the past five years running for office. He knew politicians, but not men who could run the government of a world power.Kennedy turned to Robert Lovett, a former Truman administration veteran. Lovett was also a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation.So right from the start, without rea...
By: Circle of 13
Ron Paul Favors Barack Obama on Foreign Policy
2008-05-05 08:32:00 Ron Paul has yet to endorse John McCain for the Republican nomination but over the weekend gave his input on the candidates. Paul was a Republican candidate for president and stayed in the race until John McCain had the number of delegates he needed to seal up the nomination. Paul was asked during debates if he would endorse the Republican candidate no matter who it was. Paul declined to do so on every opportunity. Ron Paul favors Barack Obama?s foreign policy, ?But that doesn?t mean that?s an endorsement,? Paul quickly added. Obama?s foreign policy of opening relations with countries that the Bush administration has been ?punishing? by cutting ties with is a large aspect of Obama?s popularity. Obama wants to end the war in Iraq and bring our troops home. Obama was also against the war in Iraq before it started. Obama favors opening talks with Iran to exhaust all diplomatic solutions to their desire to gain nuclear weapons. McCain has suggested tha...
Imagine a secretary of state whose idea of foreign policy is abolishing nuc
2008-05-04 06:51:00 Especially at a time when the recent release of photographs of Hiroshima’s aftermath by an unknown Japanese photographer reminds us anew that nuclear weapons are not intended for use on another state’s military, but its people. “‘Everywhere you turn, you hear it,’ said Savannah businessman Ed Feiler.” What, that Clinton will pull it out? That we’ll attack Iran? No, think local. Turns out that Georgians are speculating whether Sam Nunn, their Democratic senator for 25 years, will be invited to join a Barack Obama ticket. It’s true that Obama was recently endorsed by Nunn. But why pick a guy who will be 70 by the election? Yes, he’s two years younger than John McCain, but he’s been out of office 11 years. Larry Peterson of the Savannah Morning News explains: “Nunn’s experience and expertise, especially on national defense issues and foreign policy, would offset what some view as Obama’s weaknesses. . . . And...
Fareed Zakaria NAILS John McCain on Foreign Policy
2008-05-02 16:56:00 Mccain Vs. Mccain He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can't. Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK Apr 26, 2008 Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential raceyou know, John McCain. McCain is said to be benefiting from this politically because his rivals are tearing each other apart. In fact, few people are paying much attention to what the Republican nominee is saying, or subjecting it to any serious scrutiny. On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed. In his speech McCain proposed that the United States expel Russia from the G8, the group of advanced industrial countries. Moscow was included in this body in the 1990s...
FACTBOX: Diplomatic challenges facing Russia?s Medvedev
2008-05-02 04:03:00 Diplomatic novice Dmitry Medvedev will take over next week as Russian president with a thick stack of foreign policy challenges in his in-tray. Here are some of the international issues that will confront Medvedev when he replaces his mentor Vladimir Putin as head of state on May 7: NATO ENLARGEMENT The Western military alliance agreed at its summit ...
By: 1913 Intel
Robert Kagan, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to John McCain
2008-05-02 02:55:00 OK! I can get behind this guy: Mr. Kagan writes extensively on US strategy and diplomacy. Kagan and fellow neoconservative William Kristol co-founded the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 1997. Kagan signed the famous 1998 PNAC letter sent to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq. After working as principal speechwriter to Secretary of ...
Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Weakness of America
2008-04-29 05:43:00 American Interest Magazine I think you?re putting your finger on a major weakness of contemporary America. The weakness is that we?re more democratic than we?ve ever been before, in the sense that popular pressures translate into policy pressures very quickly. And we?re probably as ignorant as ever about the rest of the world, because everybody now lives in a kind of simplistic, trivialized virtual reality in which fact and fiction, impressions and impulses, are mixed up in an incoherent fashion. The public really has no grasp of complexities, no sense of intellectual refinement in judging them, and our political leaders have become increasingly demagogic. The way George W. Bush campaigned for the war in Iraq, with reference to fictitious WMDs, and with sweeping, simplistic, black-and-white generalizations about freedom and tyranny, is a case in point. But he was responding to our increasingly imbecilized societal condition. This is very troublesome. I think the degeneration of the...
Reverend Wright Offers No Apologies at Detroit NAACP Dinner
2008-04-28 06:39:00 Democratic Presidnetial candidate Barack Obama?s controversial pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who spoke tonight to 12,000 people at the NAACP?s 53rd annual ?Fight for Freedom Fund? dinner held at Cobo Hall in Detroit Michigan, said he is ?descriptive,? and not divisive in describing American social ills. Learn more about Reverend Wright's views about America.
By: pajamadeen
Leader says Hamas ?won?t recognise Israel?
2008-04-22 14:13:00 In case anyone actually believed that the Palestinians were interested in peace, here’s the story right from the horse’s mouth: Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but “it will not recognise Israel,” the Islamist movement’s exiled chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference Monday. “We accept a Palestinian state within the ...
Leader says Hamas ?won?t recognise Israel?
2008-04-22 14:13:00 In case anyone actually believed that the Palestinians were interested in peace, here’s the story right from the horse’s mouth: Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders but “it will not recognise Israel,” the Islamist movement’s exiled chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference Monday. “We accept a Palestinian state within the ...
A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (Paperb
2008-04-15 02:04:00 A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (Paperback)By Ron Paul Buy new: $19.95$13.5731 used and new from $12.83 Customer Rating: First tagged “taxes” by ExplorerJoe Customer tags: ron paul(65), ...
Based on Obama?s Foreign Policy Experience, I Could be President
2008-04-11 14:50:00 Senator Barack Obama, campaigning for President in Levittown, PA, claims his foreign policy credentials stem from “real-life” experiences abroad. Apparently growing up in Indonesia, spending three weeks in Pakistan with a side trip to India and having ties to relatives in Kenya gives one the requisite foreign policy experience to be President of the ...
By: shyspeak.net
Foreign Policy As Practiced By Seven Year Old Children
2008-04-11 07:51:00 My daughter, in second grade, has been (let’s face it) an unholy terror of a child, of late. I blame this entirely on her fellow classmates at her public school, as she was an impeccably well adjusted, unfailingly polite and conscientious child before she met them — that’s my story, anyway, and I’ll stick to ...
What's In Your Resume? Are You a Foreign Policy Expert Like Obama?
2008-04-11 05:20:00 NO EXPERIENCE NEEDEDBarack Obama’s “real life” experience reminds me of those ‘entry level’ classifieds where they are a front to get people to do commission only hard labor. “No experience necessary”. So the NYTimes has this piece where Obama says real life experience is more important than a life-time of foreign policy experience. “…“Experience in Washington is not knowledge of the world,” he continued, provoking laughter among those present. “This I know. When Senator Clinton brags, ‘I’ve met leaders from 80 countries,’ I know what those trips are like. I’ve been on them. You go from the airport to ...
The World Bank's Carbon Deals - Foreign Policy In Focus
2008-04-10 14:56:00 The World Bank's Carbon DealsForeign Policy In Focus - 3 hours agoIt was the first day in a long week of the consultations, PowerPoint presentations and high-level cocktail parties that accompany the World Bank?s Spring ...
Kerry: McCain?s foreign policy made us ?weaker?
2008-04-04 00:41:00 Sen. John Kerry said fellow veteran John McCain?s military background doesn?t necessarily mean he would be a good commander in chief. ?John McCain can run around all that he wants right now talking about his military experience,? Kerry told CNN?s Suzanne Malveaux, ?but he made the wrong judgment about Iraq, he has a foreign policy that has made us weaker.? He added that the last eight years have been a failure in foreign policy, ?and John McCain has supported it in its entirety.? Wow, the fucking gall of this asshole. So, if he made the wrong judgment about Iraq, why is it that you yourself defended your vote for the war in Iraq? Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Monday he would not have changed his vote to authorize the war against Iraq, but said he would have handled things "very differently" from President Bush. You talk about how the "last eight years have been a failure", but that puts the date back to 2000, and you voted for the war in Iraq in 2002. That me...
Senator Hagel on The Daily Show
2008-04-01 16:25:00 Chuck Hagel was the guest on one of my favorite shows last night, The Daily Show.
The Iraq Dilemma
2008-03-28 22:45:00 There is a large consensus that we got into the war in Iraq for the wrong reasons. Faulty Intelligence, faulty foreign policy, or a deceiving President are the most common cited reasons. Obviously, Democrats do not support the war and by now very few Republicans reiterate the original reasons we went in. Whatever the reasons, right or wrong, the reality is that we did. Had the war been swift as promised or already won, the discussion would have been mostly forgotten. But Bush's administration had not been successful in Iraq more than it had been in many of its other endeavors, and herein lies the rub. So many Americans have grown to despise President Bush and his failing Iraq policies that a majority wants to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Get out and turn a new page. But as inconvenient as it may be, the question to ask now is who are we punishing by rushing out of Iraq? Do we punish Bush who... Click on the article title to read the full article.
American foreign policy: All change?
2008-03-28 05:42:00 Whether it is Clinton, McCain or Obama, the world will still quarrel with America’s foreign policy TO JUDGE by the polls, millions of people in America and around the world are gasping to see the back of George Bush. With his going, America can extract itself from a catastrophic war in the Middle East, stop ...
By: 1913 Intel
McCain outlines foreign policy goals
2008-03-27 03:28:00 In a broad-ranging foreign policy speech, Sen. John McCain pledged today that, if elected, his administration's foreign policy would be based on cooperation with U.S. allies and he called for a league of democracies that could build 'an enduring peace.
By: Get rich
John McCain Delivers Major Foreign Policy Address
2008-03-26 22:39:00 Sen. John McCain, 71, touts his foreign policy credentials at every campaign event, and today he delivered a major foreign policy address before the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Copyright... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
More Foreign Policy ?Straight Talk? From McCain
2008-03-26 16:46:00 This CNN story tells us that?John McCain, outlining his foreign policy positions on the heels of an overseas trip, is renewing his call for the United States to work more collegially with democratic nations and live up to its duties as a world leader."Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed," the Republican said in prepared remarks a few days after returning from the Middle East and Europe. "We need to listen to the views and respect the collective will of our democratic allies."Gosh, how decent of McCain to act like a protocol observed by almost every other country on earth is somehow a revolutionary concept to us.However, Der Spiegel observed the following about ?Senator Honor And Virtue? only two months ago (from here)?John McCain made a rather terrible joke while campaigning in South Carolina in April last year. When asked about Iran, the Arizona senator laughed, and...
4,000 U.S. Troops Dead in Iraq
2008-03-24 05:16:00 With a roadside bomb detonation at about 10:00 p.m. local time in Baghdad, the Easter holiday was marred as the U.S. troop death toll in the Iraq War officially rose to 4,000.
By: pajamadeen
John McCain?s Foreign Policy Gaffe (via CBS News)
2008-03-22 09:01:00 John McCain displays the cluelessness that one would expect from a would-be Republican successor to George W Bush Maybe he should have used the old Republican standby ‘evildoers’
Condoleezza Rice and the Passport Privacy Breach
2008-03-22 00:50:00 Good Friday penance took on a new meaning for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as she found herself calling presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to apologize for the huge egg laid by State Department employees who viewed the passport files of all three Presidential candidates, in separate incidents dating back to last summer.
By: pajamadeen
Sabrin to Make ?Major Foreign Policy? Announcement
2008-03-20 16:22:00 GOP U.S. Senate candidate Murray Sabrin will be making a “major foreign policy” announcement later this afternoon at his campaign headquarters in Jersey City. We will have all details as soon as they happen right here.
Obama turns to foreign policy
2008-03-19 20:06:00 WASHINGTON Sen. Barack Obama, turning up the rhetoric on foreign policy, said today that his two presidential rivals talk tough on national security but make decisions that embolden America's enemies in the war against terrorism.
By: Get rich
McCain's foreign policy unclear
2008-03-16 07:48:00 WASHINGTON Sen. John McCain is well-known for scorching denunciations of Democrats, who he says would raise the 'white flag of surrender' by cutting off funds for U.S. troops in Iraq.
By: Get rich
Making a Recession Great, by US Rep. Ron Paul
2008-03-16 06:00:00 House Democrats recently adopted a budget with massive tax hikes, many of which are directed at those Americans who can least afford them. By allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2010, this budget will raise income taxes not only on those in the highest income brackets, but raises the lowest bracket from 10% to 15% as well. Estates would again be taxed at 55%. The child tax credit would drop from $1000 to $500. Senior citizens relying on investment income would be hurt by increases in dividend and capital gains taxes. It's not just that the Democrats want to raises taxes on the rich. They want to raises taxes on everybody. The problem is, policing the world is expensive, and if elected officials insist upon continuing to fund our current foreign policy, the money has to come from somewhere. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have already cost us over $1 trillion. The Democrats' budget gives the President all the funding he needs for his foreign policy, so one wonders how...
The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Cha
2008-03-15 02:45:00 In August 2007, a Russian adventurer descended 4,300 meters under the thinning ice of the North Pole to plant a titanium flag, claiming some 1.2 million square kilometers of the Arctic for mother Russia. Not to be outdone, the Prime Minister of Canada stated his intention to boost his nations military presence in the Arctic, with the stakes raised by...
By: Asiaing.com
Former Clinton Foreign Policy Adviser: Hillary Clinton?s Claims of Experien
2008-03-14 20:26:00 Greg Craig, a senior foreign policy to Bill Clinton and now an adviser to Barack Obama was interviewed by National Journal and was asked about Hillary Clinton’s claims to experience in foreign policy. During the interview he summed up the limitations to her experience: The point that I am making is that her claims of the ...
By: Liberal Values
Clinton's Foreign Policy Experience Claims Are Exaggerated
2008-03-14 15:21:00 Newsweek.com On March 6 Hillary Clinton claimed that, unlike Barack Obama, she and likely Republican nominee John McCain have "cross[ed] the commander-in-chief threshold." In a CNN interview the day before, Clinton had listed five foreign policy accomplishments. We can't determine how much behind-the-scenes work Clinton did while first lady, and she certainly took an active interest in foreign policy when her husband was president. Moreover, her time as first lady plus her longer Senate career do give Clinton more foreign policy experience than Obama. But the public record of her actions shows that many of Clinton's foreign policy claims are exaggerated. Clinton claims to have "negotiated open borders" in Macedonia to fleeing Kosovar refugees. But the Macedonian border opened a full day before she arrived, and her meetings with Macedonian officials were too brief to allow for much serious negotiating. Clinton's activities "helped bring peace to Northern Ireland." Irish officia...
Obama Responds to Clinton?s Claims of Experience on Foreign Policy
2008-03-12 02:54:00 Barack Obama has responded forcibly to Clinton’s claims of having experience at handling a foreign policy crisis. Many of the points are similar to those noted in previous posts here, such as this one from last Friday. Obama looks at several of the examples given of Clinton’s foreign policy experience and notes, “There is no ...
By: Liberal Values
Unelected Union Thugs Trying to Write Foreign Policy
2008-03-12 01:03:00 In the military there is phrase for something that gets larger than it started; mission creep. This phrase is a really good one to describe how things often get out of hand. It also describes why unions always go awry. In this case, mission creep describes what happens when a union goes from being concerned ...
Overstepping Union Attacks US Foreign Policy
2008-03-12 00:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In the military there is phrase for something that gets larger than it started; mission creep. This phrase is a really good one to describe how things often get out of hand. It also describes why unions always go awry. In this case, mission creep describes what ...
By: Publius Forum
Has Anyone Questioned John McCain?s Foreign Policy Experience?
2008-03-10 13:18:00 Okay, I stumbled across this video of John McCain talking to supporters and I was baffled. Can you imagine what would have happened if Mike Huckabee or Barack Obama had slipped like this? It would have been armageadon for them. Thankfully, Huckabee, who did lack in depth knowledge on foreign policy outside ...
By: KTracy.com
Clinton?s Foreign Policy Experience
2008-03-08 02:02:00 Despite all her whining that the press is biased toward Obama, Hillary Clinton has actually been the beneficiary of favorable media coverage. During 2007 they played along with her claims of being the inevitable candidate, and didn’t cease doing so until her inevitability claims were shattered by losing. Although Clinton has far less actual experience ...
By: Liberal Values
Clinton?s Foreign Policy Experience
2008-03-08 02:02:00 Despite all her whining that the press is biased toward Obama, Hillary Clinton has actually been the beneficiary of favorable media coverage. During 2007 they played along with her claims of being the inevitable candidate, and didn’t cease doing so until her inevitability claims were shattered by losing. Although Clinton has far less actual experience ...
By: Liberal Values
Foreign Policy Experience
2008-03-08 00:00:00 I posted this from Josh Marshall yesterday: I think Hillary Clinton is definitely qualified to be commander-in-chief of the US military. In fact, I think she'd make a strong one. She had a successful legal career. She participated in key decisions during the Clinton administration. And she's beginning her second ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Following the Yellow Brick Road to Pennsylvania
2008-03-06 23:27:00 About two years ago, we recall having a conversation with friends about the possibility that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee in the November 2008 elections. The subject came up again a few weeks ago, and the consensus remained the same: The only way that Democrats could blow the 2008 Presidential race would be to?nominate Hillary Clinton. Read more about why we think that Hillary Clinton would hand over the Presidency to John McCain.
By: pajamadeen
Obama's Jew Hating Foreign Policy Advisor. . .
2008-03-06 20:52:00 Just listen who will be giving Obama advice on foreign policy.1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Foreign Policy Experience
2008-03-04 00:00:00 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com-/watch?v=ou4JnWQsxKw[/youtube]- Olbermann's one-word response in this clip: [HTML1] HT Americablog.
By: BuffaloPundit
Putin?s foreign policy: achievements and failures
2008-03-01 05:07:00 As Russia braces for presidential elections Sunday, strategic planners are looking at the achievements and failures of the country’s foreign policy under President Vladimir Putin.
By: Latest News
Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy in the Middle East
2008-02-29 09:59:00 Sudhan @10:00 CET What It Means for Americans Karen Kwiatkowski | Information Clearing House, Feb. 28, 2008 The following is the text of a speech given at Virginia Tech on February 12, 2008. I want to thank the Libertarians at Virginia Tech, the Political Science Club and the Institute for Humane ...
By: Suzie-Q
Angelina Jolie: Atlas Shrugged
2008-02-29 02:04:00 Don't know much about his-tor-ee. Don't know much seh-cur-it-tee... Angelina Jolie exhibits her Iraq foreign policy expertise in a Wash Post op-ed today.
By: Chickaboomer
France's Changing Foreign Policy
2008-02-28 15:39:00 France has always maintained a military presence in its former African colonies, but President Sarkozy's announcement that it will open a base in the United Arab Emirates was the most recent in a series of shifts in the country's foreign defense policies. By all accounts, Sarkozy's methods more closely resemble the hard power approach of the US than the very diplomatic European Union. This shift in defense strategy may undermine plans for a European defense force but it will certainly strengthen the US-Franco relationship. |
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