How Trouble in Pakistan and Kenya Helped the Iowa Caucus Winners
source: http://blog.iconflict.com/how-trouble-in-pakistan-and-kenya-helped-the-iowa-caucus-winners/
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The argument seems on the surface to be completely plausible. After all, isnt Hillary Clinton more equipped to handle an international crisis with her years of experience over the upstart Barack Obama? With only 1 term in the senate to his resume, the only link Obama had to Kenya was that his father was from there.
Mike Huckabee was a governor from Arkansas. Unlike many of his rivals he has zero experience in foreign affairs and made several high profile gaffes on the topic.
It seemed that international events were working against both candidates. Yet by the time the polls closed on Tuesday night, conventional wisdom proved to be dead wrong. Why?
It seems that Americans are so distraught on the current state of American affairs that they are willing to embrace anything new.
Consider this. On the Republican ticket there has been a Bush or a Dole for every national election since 1976 (thats before this author was born). Since 1988 we have had: Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush. The outcome of the last quarter century of American presidential politics hasnt exactly been a call for change. Maybe now voters are tired of keeping it in the family. Maybe now after so many years of more of the same, the change crowd will now move front and center.
Read more about this on link above to Blogflict.
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timoteoBookerTW
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ron paul? sounds great. probably coulda got more attention if he changes his name to brit spears and uses a british accent.........he'd have to beat off, hide in rehab, and sip tea in an afghan tea house to keep the press at bay, just for a couple hours. (my ignorant bufoon prediction)
seriously, you inspire me to do more than stare at lcd screens, and stuff myself w/ cellofane-wrapped sugar, syrup, and flour
- 4 years ago
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timoteoBookerTW
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ron_pual_2008
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there's only one real candidate for change in 2008: Ron Paul
- 4 years ago
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ron_pual_2008
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cjsmith
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Hillary has repeatedly stated that she will not engage in diplomacy with supposed "rogue" nations, a strategy which has worked fabulously for the Bush administration. Experience counts for nothing if it is the wrong type of experince. The only candidates who i believe had real experince in foreign relations were Joe Biden(Senate Foreign Relations Committe) and Bill Richardson(U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations). First Lady does not qualify as foreign relations experince especially when it is plainly obvious that your husband was the talent. Obama has a degree in political science with a specialization in international relations. He has the academic credentials. He also has a far better understanding of the world than Hillary. Clinton has the post 9/11 us versus them mentality. She is not alone in this view but Obama seems to be the only candidate who understands that the neo-con policy of the past 7 years has been an absolute failure. Instead of attempting to force countries into submission, Obama plans to engage in diplomacy. Experience counts very little without a better understanding of the world we live in. Im not even gonna touch on Huckabee because he will soon be insignificant. The sight of Chuck Norris at his Iowa victory speech was comical, and not in a good way.
- 4 years ago
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cjsmith
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Kemstone
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Experience is useless if it's only taught you how to play politics as usual and maintain the Washington status quo that's plunging us into absurd amounts of debt, sending our soldiers to die for the C.E.O. of Halliburton, destroying the environment, and making it harder and harder for middle-class families to get by.
We need a change more badly than ever in this country, and if that means we elect someone without decades of political experience, that's NOT a bad thing. We need a president who will look for newer and better ways to accomplish things, not one who has mastered the dirty ways in which things get done today.
In this primary, we need to prevent the candidates who represent the status quo--like Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney--from becoming their party's nominee. Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee may stand on completely different sides of the fence, but both represent a change (however pathetically slight it may be) from the same old politics as usual, and that's why they won. Let's make this trend continue.
- 4 years ago
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Kemstone
