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The current political campaign has become fascinating with two diametrically opposed views on how to handle foreign affairs with diplomatic skill.

Barack Obama cut right through the charade with which the U.S. has been conducting its foreign affairs when he dramatically declared in this week's Democratic presidential debate co-sponsored by You Tube and CNN that, if he were elected president, he would speak with the leaders of Syria, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea without preconditions.

Obama made an incisive point in stating that cutting off communication with these countries does not help solve pressing international problems.  

When asked for her response to the same question that Obama had answered, Hillary Clinton replied by quickly stating that she would not make any promises to meet with certain international leaders during her first year if she were elected president.

After being asked during ensuing post-debate discussion about her response, and how it differed from that of Obama, she stated with almost dramatic reverence, "I don't want the prestige and power of the president lowered by agreeing to talk to certain leaders in my first year."

Wake up, Hillary.  What has happened is hypocrisy of the highest sort at almost every level of the U.S. government.  

The word "terrorist" has become as comical as a skit from a Saturday Night Live program.  

You cast your Senate vote for invading Iraq, which did not pose an imminent threat to America.  Like so many of your colleagues, you gave George Bush what amounted to a blank check to invade Iraq if he felt that America faced a threat to be victimized by imminent attack.  

Yes, Hillary, you were ceding congressional authority in the realm of war declaration on the assumption that in an emergency George Bush would take the honest step.  

When, Hillary, had Bush or Cheney given any indication that they would ever take the right step by anyone or anything outside the neoconservative global New World Order?  Had Bush and Cheney earned their spurs for integrity?

Also, Hillary, on the subject of "power and prestige of the president" get real.  You spout the kind of meaningless cliché that one could hear Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity ceremonially deliver on Fox.  

American presidents, like all people, differ.  In the Harding Administration we had Teapot Dome and other scandals hatched within the walls of the White House.  How about the lies and cover-ups over Vietnam under Lyndon Johnson?  How about Watergate and Richard Nixon?  

More recently, what about the corporate marauders who met with Cheney, including Halliburton, where he had been its previous CEO, and who thereupon divided up prospective future profits in advance of the "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq?

As this campaign unfolds you receive praise from certain elements of the mainstream media for your cool expertise under fire and the way that you straddle the fence without alienating major segments of the electorate.

To those seeking meaningful change, this praise becomes understandable, as well as the fact that you appear to be a status quo candidate acceptable to many elements of a corporate mainstream that seeks continuity in the global march to a New World Order.


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I really don't see Obama drastically altering the USA"s foreign policy; the most he will do is indeed meeting those leaders WITHOUT preconditions, which is a wise course as it proves he takes them seriously as leaders of their country. Then and only THEN can you expect discussions to be serious. Oh and there is a (pre)condition: The USA has to be willing to make concessions as well as expect them from the leaders.

by Hans on 07/28/2007 07:01:14 AM EST

on just what Obama might say regarding foreign policy.  As your comment suggests, it is hard moving anybody off of dead center and the mainstream media jumps and howls if anyone even suggests any kind of fundamental change.  My point was how decidedly global and new world order Clinton's seemingly packaged comment was.  Thanks for your comment, Hans, and keep viewing the site for more!

by Bob Kendall on 08/01/2007 02:33:34 PM EST

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