http://themoderatevoice.com/21212/welcome-obama-a-man-who-has-played-his-cards-right/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 14:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/21212/welcome-obama-a-man-who-has-played-his-cards-right/comment-page-1/#comment-137453 vwcat Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:37:17 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/white-house/21212/welcome-obama-a-man-who-has-played-his-cards-right/#comment-137453 It takes a french newspaper to point out what no one in our traditional media can. That Obama is always ahead of the curve in foreign policy and usually right.<br>While he got slammed a year ago for saying he would talk to both our friends and enemies as being naive and irresponsible, look what even the cowboy is now doing.<br>Obama called Iraq and all that it entailed in a bad way in 2002, it took everyone else years.<br>I think maybe people, including our media, need to put aside assumptions, that a man who has not danced on the world stage cannot know foreign policy.<br>Or that because a man is a pow automatically makes him Mr. Foreign Policy. It takes a french newspaper to point out what no one in our traditional media can. That Obama is always ahead of the curve in foreign policy and usually right.
While he got slammed a year ago for saying he would talk to both our friends and enemies as being naive and irresponsible, look what even the cowboy is now doing.
Obama called Iraq and all that it entailed in a bad way in 2002, it took everyone else years.
I think maybe people, including our media, need to put aside assumptions, that a man who has not danced on the world stage cannot know foreign policy.
Or that because a man is a pow automatically makes him Mr. Foreign Policy.

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/21212/welcome-obama-a-man-who-has-played-his-cards-right/comment-page-1/#comment-137452 GreenDreams Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:41:29 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/white-house/21212/welcome-obama-a-man-who-has-played-his-cards-right/#comment-137452 I've been wondering where all those commenters are who loudly parroted the GOP talking points about Obama being "naïve", "inexperienced," "dangerous," "foolish" etc. for suggesting talking with Iran or Hamas, now that Bush, Israel and al-Maliki have decided that it's not so stupid after all. Man, talk about having the rug pulled out from under your position! Or was it really your positions? Is it still? I've been wondering where all those commenters are who loudly parroted the GOP talking points about Obama being “naïve”, “inexperienced,” “dangerous,” “foolish” etc. for suggesting talking with Iran or Hamas, now that Bush, Israel and al-Maliki have decided that it's not so stupid after all. Man, talk about having the rug pulled out from under your position! Or was it really your positions? Is it still?

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