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Obama Tough and Eloquent Today Against Bush/McCain
infiniteregress.tv — Fordham Univ Prof Paul Levinson: Obama came out swinging in a "tough, eloquent, intelligent response to Bush and McCane's slurs about Democratic 'appeasement'... Some parts of the world may indeed not yet be ready for Jeffersonian democracy, as Obama said today. But the United States surely is."
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- tcbishop12, on 05/17/2008, -1/+7Indeed, direct, truthful, on point, and eloquent. You have far less to rehearse or have to remember when you're telling the truth and speaking from principle as Sen. Obama does.
In addition to defending his concept of diplomatic engagement, Sen. Obama said it was Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain who have strayed from the robust American tradition of bilateral support for resolving conflicts through direct negotiations, a tradition that has run from John F. Kennedy to Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Obama said that what was puzzling is that this in any way would be controversial, because it has been the history of successful U.S. diplomacy until recently. - Hillsfar, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Joe Biden, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran, he needs to fire his secretaries of state and defense, both of whom have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.
Sounds to me like Bush needs to own up to his own words.
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