What i want is somebody who understands foreign policy well. For when you do get that 3 am phone call you can consult with your experts and decide for yourself what’s the best course for the country. If Mc Cain wasn’t this old and vulnerable i would have no problem.
coming to obama,the thing is even if you spend a couple of yrs. in the senate foreign relations committee or armed forces committee you get a rough idea about the foreign policy/security challenges facing the country.But since obama hardly showed up or paid any attention to those senate deliberations it’s safe to assume that he too doesn’t have much experience! But atleast his running mate does.Now i may not agree with biden most of the time but he sure knows a thing or two about foreign policy.Also he personally knows many world leaders...Many don’t realize it but chemistry between leaders is an important ingredient of diplomacy.But then again i don’t agree with many of his policies.He may know what to do during a time of crisis but won’t do anything to stop that crisis from happening in the first place.eg. he may know what to do if there is a war between iran and israel but would prolly do nothin if iran explodes a nuke.McCain prolly would but don’t know how long he’s gonna live.
We are facing troubled times and we are forced to choose between McCain/palin and obma/biden!! This is the best america could come up with!!
One thing I predict is that she would surround herself with wise counsel. She is intelligent, she has common sense, she has integrity. Don't make the mistake of underestimating her.
I would trust her more than Biden/Obama any day!
SW009—I have some good news for you.
You and I have more sense on foreign policy than Joe Biden does. Joe Biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy issue since the Vietnam War.
So what good is his “knowledge of foreign policy” when he decides consistently against the best interests of America?
Don’t worry about foreign policy so much. It isn’t that complicated.
It boils down to this: Don’t mess with America or we’ll kick your ass.
Think that is insensitive? Well, after 64 years of saving the world, spending countless trillions to end Nazism, Fascism, Emperor- Worship, and Soviet Communism, including hundreds of thousands of American lives since 1944, and bringing freedom to about two billion people, we find that even though we took no territory, no oil, no gold, no silver or anything else from anybody, we have been repaid by a European Union and Russia that traded Food for Oil with Saddam Hussein post 9/11, and a Middle East that still wants to destroy us. You can count on one hand that number of countries that have sent soldiers to stand beside us in Iraq and Afghanistan and shed their blood with ours. And Communist China that will challenge us in the near future.
Only a strong offense will keep the bad boys in line, and I’m tired of apologizing for our supremacy. Unlike any other world power in human history, we have been benevolent to even our conquered enemies,at great material cost to ourselves.
Intricate foreign policy is for Euroweenie a$$hats. Teddy Roosevelt expressed it best: Speak softly and carry a big stick.
I see Sarah Palin in that mode. And I think John McCain will also take that mantle—at 72 he has nothing left to accomplish but a legacy to leave behind.