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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Mt. Hood Oregon
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Obama "gets it" when it comes to foriegn policy.
After 7 long years of alienating our friends and allies and squandering the goodwill from the entire globe after 9-11, there is a clear choice this election. Make no mistake, there is a HUGE difference between the candidates and our standing in the world hangs in the balance. We can either allow the fear mongering to persuade us to vote for for more of the same packaged as "change" or we can buck up the courage to give real "change" a chance.
We have on one side a team of candidates who are using rhetoric of waging war with Russia and promoting the Bush Doctrine of preemptive strikes based in fear. On the other side, we have a team of candidates who offer another road. A road that is in line with the tradition of past great Presidents like Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton and even Reagan who used diplomacy and respect to work together with our friends and adversaries alike.
The cooperative agenda that Roosevelt pursued allowed America and Great Britain and other allies to work as a team to defeat Fascism. Kennedy`s determination to use diplomacy backed up by strength averted a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union. Reagan`s belief in diplomacy allowed America to work with Michail Gorbachev to thaw the cold war and allow Russia to evolve into an emerging democracy. Clinton`s foreign policy ideals furthered the stability Russia and fought ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. He was the only US President to receive a standing ovation at the U.N.
Like these men of vision, Barrack Obama has a quality about him that leaders the world over are drawn to. This is a man that gains trust and respect from both our allies and our adversaries. The Europeans have made it pretty clear who they know they can work with and develop a true international relationship with to deal with important issues like fighting global terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Nothing against McCain or Palin personally; I just emphatically know that this nation can not continue to "stay the course" with leaders who think as McCain and Palin do. This strategy has been tried and proven to be a failure; true change is what the world needs now!
The world is inspired and awaits our decission...let`s not let the world down!
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Obama win preferred in world poll
Most thought US relations would get better under a president Obama
People outside the US would prefer Barack Obama to become US president ahead of John McCain, a BBC World Service poll suggests.
Democrat Mr Obama was favoured by a four-to-one margin across the 22,500 people polled in 22 countries.
In 17 countries, the most common view was that US relations with the rest of the world would improve under Mr Obama.
If Republican Mr McCain were elected, the most common view was that relations would remain about the same.
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Even Sarah Palin gets it:
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Palin on Obama
by Philip Gourevitch
September 8, 2008
Before she was running against him, Sarah Palin—the governor of Alaska and now the Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States—thought it was pretty neat that Barack Obama was edging ahead of John McCain in her usually solidly red state. After all, she said, Obama’s campaign was using the same sort of language that she had in her gubernatorial race. “The theme of our campaign was ‘new energy,’ ” she said recently. “It was no more status quo, no more politics as usual, it was all about change. So then to see that Obama—literally, part of his campaign uses those themes, even, new energy, change, all that, I think, O.K., well, we were a little bit ahead on that.” She also noted, “Something’s kind of changing here in Alaska, too, for being such a red state on the Presidential level. Obama’s doing just fine in polls up here, which is kind of wigging people out, because they’re saying, ‘This hasn’t happened for decades that in polls the D’ ”—the Democratic candidate—“ ‘is doing just fine.’ To me, that’s indicative, too. It’s the no-more-status-quo, it’s change.”
This was two weeks ago, at the statehouse in Juneau. After persistent reports, in July, that Palin was on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, her name had faded back into obscurity. Nobody in Alaska seemed to take her seriously as a national prospect, and she had shrugged the whole thing off on television, telling CNBC’s Larry Kudlow that, before considering the job, she would want to know “what is it, exactly, that the V.P. does every day.” Now, at the statehouse, she sat, unattended by aides, curled up in a cardigan, and explained that what she had done every day since becoming governor was to stick her thumb in the eye of Alaska’s Republican Party establishment. “The G.O.P. leader of the state—we haven’t spoken since I got elected,” she said.
She went on, “I guess if you take the individual issues, two that I believe would be benchmarks showing whether you’re a hard-core Republican conservative or not, would be: I’m a lifetime member of the N.R.A.—but this is Alaska, who isn’t?—and I am pro-life, absolutely.” She continued, “I guess that puts me in a box of being hard-core Republican.” But she said she recognized that “the Democrats also preach individual freedoms and individual rights, capitalism, free market, let-it-do-its-thing-best, let people keep as much of their money that they earn as possible. And when it comes to, like, the Party machine, no one will accuse me of being partisan.”
So the possibility that Obama might win Alaska did not worry Palin: “Turning maybe purple in the state means, to me, it’s more independent, it’s not the obsessive partisanship that gets in the way of doing what’s right for this state, and I think on a national level that’s what we’re gonna see.” And she added, “That’s why McCain is the candidate for the G.O.P.—because he’s been known as the maverick, as the conduit for some change.” In the state’s Republican caucus, McCain came in fourth, trailing Ron Paul. “I always looked at Senator McCain just as a Joe Blow public member, looking from the outside in,” she said. “He’s been buttin’ heads with Republicans for years, and that’s a healthy place to be.” Then again, on McCain’s signature issue—the prosecution of the war in Iraq—she did not sound so gung-ho. Her son is a soldier, and she said, “I’m a mom, and my son is going to get deployed in September, and we better have a real clear plan for this war. And it better not have to do with oil and dependence on foreign energy.”
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