Saturday, August 23, 2008

Obama’s “lack of credentials”

Heh.  So it’s not just me. 

“Biden owes his selection to (Russian Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin,” said French political analyst Dominique Moisi. “Russia’s invasion of Georgia reinforced the American worry about international tensions.” The choice of the foreign affairs veteran was intended to reassure the electorate concerned about Obama’s lack of credentials, Moisi said.

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2040 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. The funny thing is that John McCain supposedly has good foreign policy credentials, and he has a horrible track record on foreign policy. Nevermind Iraq, look back to Kosovo, where McCain thought the air war was too weak, and we should have gone in with a ground invasion of Serbia. Next to McCain, Bush looks like a model of restraint.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 24, 2008 at 0820 hrs


  2. McCain has nothing going for him foreign policy-wise except a tough-guy image.  I think we’ve had enough of that kind of “leadership.”

    As Obama says, McCain was dead wrong on the single most important foreign policy issue of the last decade.  Experience doesn’t mean anything without a track record of being right.

    Posted by scott on August 24, 2008 at 1105 hrs


  3. pssst…scott…we’re winning the war in Iraq.  That wouldn’t be the case if we’d followed Obama’s strategy of rejecting the surge and leaving Iraq prematurely.

    OK, you can go back to sleep now.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 24, 2008 at 1150 hrs


  4. pssst…Tony…we wouldn’t be in Iraq in the first place if the present Administration had not ginned up the facts.

    How many American lives would have been spared?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 24, 2008 at 1246 hrs


  5. Guess, what, pjr?  This election won’t be about how we got into Iraq [and by the way, relying on bad intelligence cannot logically be equated with ginning up facts].  Rather, it will be about the electorate’s comfort level with a very liberal and very inexperienced candidate.

    Now I know it’s hard for you to stay on topic within these comment threads, but perhaps you could react to what even the left-leaning BBC understands about your guy.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 24, 2008 at 1401 hrs


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