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I cannot believe that Barack Obama has selected someone as his Vice President who is very biased person.
He seems like war fanatic.
My message to Barack is: "WOW! Simply unbelievable!
You acted rationale until now. Now we can see that there is huge pressure on you from Lobbyists. Who will lead us to better foreign policy, a policy which will lead all of us to way of peace and stability through out the world.
Every one wants peace, so no more wars please.
I cannot believe that Barack Obama has selected someone as his Vice President who is... more
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Why Joe Biden has been selected as Vice President nomination?
Now all of us can understand that reason.
Why Joe Biden has been selected as Vice President nomination?
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- From confronting Russia to dealing with climate change, Barack Obama's selection of Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential candidate Saturday was seen abroad as adding weight and depth to the foreign policy of a potential Obama administration.
European analysts said the crisis in the Caucasus provided an appropriate backdrop to Biden's nomination.
In Accra, experts attending a U.N. climate change convention said Obama was sending a strong signal of change on what many see as a foreign policy debacle by the outgoing Bush administration regarding the battle against global warming.
"Biden owes his selection to (Russian Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin," said French political analyst Dominique Moisi. "Russia's invasion of Georgia reinforced the American worry about international tensions." The choice of the foreign affairs veteran was intended to reassure the electorate concerned about Obama's lack of credentials, Moisi said.
In Britain, the North America editor for the British Broadcasting Corp., Justin Webb, said Biden was "Vladimir Putin's contribution to American politics - he is a necessary antidote to the Obama lack of worldly wisdom, which before Georgia was a bit academic to most Americans."
Webb said Republican presidential candidate John McCain had acquitted himself well during the Russian invasion of Georgia this month. McCain "took the 3 a.m. call. Obama needs a pal who can do the same," Webb wrote in his blog.
Biden's selection drew mixed reviews Saturday in Iraq because of his call two years ago to divide the country into autonomous regions along sectarian and ethnic lines. The proposal, made in a 2006 op-ed article in The New York Times, drew sharp criticism, especially from Sunni Arabs who opposed autonomy provisions that were written into the Iraqi constitution in 2005.
"Basically, this is an internal American affair, but it is giving us cause for concern because Biden was clear in his calls to divide Iraq according to sectarian and ethnic lines," Sunni lawmaker Adnan al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press.
A spokesman for anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who controls 30 seats in the 275-member parliament, said he doubted the Biden proposal would become American policy even if the Democrats win the November election.
The sentiment was shared by Kurdish elder statesman Mahmoud Othman, who said even if Biden is elected, he doubts it will make much difference "because it is the Iraqi people who will have the last say about their future.ACCRA, Ghana (AP) -- From confronting Russia to dealing with climate change, Barack... more
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman
Senator Joe Biden is talking national security, and though no longer a candidate for the presidency, he just challenged Republican candidate John McCain on behalf of the Democrats on what some presume is McCain's main strength with voters.
"I think we as Democrats should not shy away from a direct confrontation with the Republicans on national security. The Democratic Party and the Democratic candidates are stronger on National security than George Bush or John McCain. ...
"The Democratic Party is not at all reluctant to debate national security with John McCain or George Bush. We are stronger on it, we will make America more secure and make it safer," he declared in an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."
In a speech delivered Tuesday at Georgetown University, Biden critiqued the GOP and laid out a Democratic foreign policy vision that contrasts sharply with Bush's and McCain's. He called fear "the main driver of our foreign policy" and said, "Even if you look at the world through this administration’s distorted lens, you see a failed policy. This failure flows from a dangerous combination of ideology and incompetence and a profound confusion about whom we’re fighting."
Biden also said in his speech that McCain's remark about staying "100 years in Iraq" fuels conspiracy theories about America's motives in the region. As he later told Olbermann, "When we say to the Arab world that we would stay in Iraq even in peaceful circumstances, it feeds the assumption that we're there to control their oil and to have a permanent base ..."
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden said that in two weeks of hearings prior to General Petraeus' much touted testimony, he heard from many in the defense and foreign policy establishments who have come to "the exact opposite conclusion" about the wisdom of a troop drawdown than had General Petraeus, Ambassador Crocker and George Bush.
** Biden talking like a real Senator, doing what he's paid to do! **
** Thank you Joe Biden **A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman
Senator Joe Biden is talking... more
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