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05.08.2008 4:57 pm

Obama v. McCain: Let the ruckus begin

WASHINGTON _ A deficiency in Barack Obama’s resume is his inexperience in foreign policy. After all, Indiana was foreign territory to Springfield, Ill. when Obama was an Illinois state senator four years ago now.

Expect John McCain and the GOP to be aggressive about Obama’s limited international experience. Even though Obama hasn’t nailed down the Democratic nomination, we’ve been getting glimpses of what we’re likely to be hearing – including this remark from McCain: “It’s very clear who Hamas (the militant Palestinian organization) wants to be the next president of the United States.”

Looks like we can expect Obama to be aggressive in firing back, as he was in an interview this afternoon with CNN.

“This is offensive, and I think it’s disappointing,” Obama said. “Because John McCain always says ‘I am not going to run that kind of politics,’ and to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate, particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his.”

Hear more – and expect a lively campaign.

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No one so far, have any competent experience or experience otherwise dealing with the foreign and terrorist that we must face.

So we better have pray for a man to lead who have the gift of a whole lot of wisdom.

— D. Walker
6:39 pm May 8th, 2008

John McCain has zero foreign policy or international experience. Why does the Post-Dispatch give Slick Johnny Mc a pass on this issue? I guess Lee Publications has already decided it will endorse McCain, and filtered the message down through the ranks.

If you want to really find out where the candidates are on foreign affairs, ask them the following:

1. Do you support the “Bush Doctrine” of pre-emptive attacks upon apparent nation-state threats to the US before any attack upon us?

2. Do you support the Bush Justice Department narrow interpretation of torture so that the CIA and our military can use previously prohibited practices to obtain information from persons in our custody?

3. Do you support the Bush policy of “spreading democracy” in the Middle East as the way to deal with long festering issues there? If so, what about Hamas, which was elected by the Palestinian people to represent them in free elections which were supported by the US?

— Tim Hogan
4:22 pm May 9th, 2008