Posted on 07/25/2007 1:17:56 AM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush’s diplomacy.
Older politicians in both parties questioned the wisdom of such a course, while Obama’s supporters characterized it as a repudiation of Bush policies of refusing to engage with certain adversaries.
It triggered a round of competing memos and statements Tuesday between the chief Democratic presidential rivals. Obama’s team portrayed it as a bold stroke; Clinton supporters saw it as a gaffe that underscored the freshman senator’s lack of foreign policy experience.
“I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive,” Clinton was quoted in an interview with the Quad-City Times that was posted on the Iowa newspaper’s Web site on Tuesday.
In response, Obama told the newspaper that her stand puts her in line with the Bush administration
Both parties were weighing the potential political fallout, especially in Florida, an early primary state, a pivotal general election state — and where Cuban President Fidel Castro remains particularly unpopular.
“Anything that looks like pandering to dictators is bad politics in South Florida,” said Republican state Rep. David Rivera of Miami. He predicted Obama’s comments would come back to haunt him, particularly if he becomes the Democratic nominee
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I’m not impressed. It’s the pot calling the kettle black.
Or is it black enough?
From the frying pan into the fire. Tweetle dee and tweetle dum.
She’s gotta a great foreign policy mentor; Bill Clinton.
Hello, communism.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Obama Magical Mystery Tour has to end somewhere.
This is the beginning of the end.
Yes, even the Bushes and Clintons agree that Barry's naive and dangerous. Will she have to trash him to the degree that he'll be too radioactive to be reeled in as her VP, however?
B. Hussein said he'd meet with Syria and the Iranians to make them aware of their responsibilities in Iraq; that is, to keep the region stable. Yeah, they'll work on that as quickly as possible! Nothing like a $200B/year oil-for-state-run-terrorism incentive to let them see their way clear to administering the former Iraq with an iron fist inside a silk glove.
Exhume and revive Saddam as an ayatollah, why don't you?
I guess Barry can count on Ellison's endorsement and lots of foreign cash and oil credits from the ME for his campaign.
He really maintains he converted to Christianity? I'm guessing they're willing to overlook that little white lie he's been telling us infidels.
HF
Hitlery certainly is in a position to know her fellow marxists pretty well.
Obama is naive?
Mrs. Clinton is a murderer, a thief, an enabler of a sexual pervert, a liar and she has legs like an elephant.
Obama is naive?
Mrs. Clinton is a murderer, a thief, an enabler of a sexual pervert, a liar and she has legs like an elephant.
but she states she knows foreign policy....after all look at her mentor....bj clinton...and what a great job he did along with his also sec of state maddie halfbright!!!
mrs. clinton- if you can’t tell when your husband is lying, how are you going to tell when putin is lying?
He'll either make Ellison his Secretary of State... or Dhimmitude Czar.
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh was playing a recording from a Hillary speach from May 2007 where she said basically the same exact thing as Obama.
Of course you'll only hear about it from people like Rush.
The political chameleon changers her colors again...
Pot...Kettle...black?... or is it black enough? Shall we take another poll?
Good God! If the American people elect that witch they are just plain stupid.
Obama is now in our backyard. That’s what Hillary says us everyday people are...just plain stupid...and so she’ll have to tell us what’s good for us and take our money so the bum next door will have everything that WE’VE worked so hard for.
No doubt Hillary is getting ready to ram & rob Obama....and what’s left in his kitty will be hers.
I’m no Hitlery fan - I just think she’s a more sophisticated communist sympathizer when compared to Barack.
Of course he is naive; he’s a Democrat. They all are.
It was Bill Clinton who gave nuclear reactors and fuel to North Korea on the “promise” that they would only use it for peaceful purposes. Bill Clinton bombed Christians and aided Muslims on the Muslim claims they were facing genocide. I’ve seen Clinton (Bill) accept claims that the UN has brought peace since WWII. Carter was even worse. FDR and “Uncle Joe,” McGovern, Pelosi in Syria. One can go on and on about Democrat naivete. Hilary is no better. The most realistic Democrat is Joe Lieberman and he was kicked out of the party.
I agree, and those are her good points.
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