This is no time for a celebrity in the Oval Office (Australian editor endorses McCain)

The Australian ^ | Greg Sheriden

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WOULD a Barack Obama ascendancy in the US presidential election lead to a new war in the Middle East? There's quite a respectable case for thinking it might. Would it also lead to catastrophe in Iraq? And what would it mean for Australia? In terms of who would be best for Australia, there is a respectable case to be made for each remaining US presidential candidate: Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The case for Obama rests on the fact that greater US power and prestige directly benefits Australia. Certainly the Rudd Government believes this. The case for Obama is that as president he would bring the maximum brand for the US from George W. Bush. There is something a little weird about the Obama phenomenon. It's a bit like the Princess Di obsession. His is a candidacy of celebrity and identity. But we live in a world of celebrity and identity, and for a time the world probably would fall in love with president Obama. At a deeper level, Obama's soaring rhetoric seems to serve no purpose beyond itself. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt used magnificent speeches to argue specific causes: ending slavery, defeating Nazism. Obama's cadences are superbly non-specific: "Yes, we can!" Nonetheless, Obama does have a record and it places him generally on the Left of the Democratic Party, although he has often used centrist and sometimes even hawkish rhetoric. But his closest advisers all come from the Left of the party.

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Democrats are constantly wailing that we should give more consideration to foreign opinion.

Here it is, but somehow I think the Dems will revert to isolationism and dismiss Sheridan as a meddling foreign.

Unlike some of his moonbat advisors, Obama probably could find Indonesia on a map, having lived there for several years. He may even know that it has the world's largest Muslim population, but that is almost his only qualification in foreign and security policy.

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Unfortunately he didn't have a pool to select from.

We're screwed!

[SoCalPol]

ping to “Australian” to the point comments on Boma.

[ASOC]

Obama = proof US voters are as lemmings.