Obama Aligns Foreign Policy With GOP

Makes me wonder how old Obama was when he first started paying attention to international events.

He was a baby when JFK was shot, so he can't remember the fear we went through during the blockade. He must have had his head in the sand during the Carter years since he was old enough to understand foreign affairs by then. I don't remember ever feeling there was a threat of being attacked during the Clinton years, but he couldn't possibly say anything kind about the man who is campaigning for his opponent.

As for the Desert Storm attack on Iraq by GHWB, I'm pretty sure I watched that one closer than Obama did.

When he talks like this, he makes me even more nervous about the possibility of him being in charge.

When I think of Reagan foreign policy, all I can think of is Iran-Contra. I'd rather Obama find another model for advancing the cause of peace in the world.

Hurray for misleading headlines. That should be "Obama aligns foreign policy with GOP and Democrats."

If he disagrees with acting like a republican as he is quoted at the end....why is likening himself to them, saying he is like them? he never makes any sense when he talks....I swear i do try, but he talks out of both sides....wouldn't want to look like a republican or act them, but I'm gonna base my foreign policy on their tactics and their ideas. What does that even mean anyway...he makes no sense.

Obama knows what is best for us.

As anticipated, here's the part where he begins tacking right for the general. The Persian Gulf war??? Kucinich, man, we still need you!

Please, for the love of God, NOT Reagan again! It's not 'trickle down economics' Mr Obama, it's 'piss on you' (to the middle class)or 'piss from the mountain top' (to the rich) economics...stop, already! Their foreign policy positions are an extension of the same attitude! Lousy judgement, once again...the same lousy judgement that makes you so vulerable to your Repub rival.

Well, that was a pretty ridiculous critique of Clinton. She and Obama are on the same page nearly all the time.

Wow, Obama's secretly a Reagan Democrat. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! I'm sure y'all will find a way to spin that.

His foreign policy is similar to that of the pre-neocon GOP IN SOME WAYS. Hardly the end of the world, or for that matter, a bad thing.

This kind of proves there is little difference between Obama, Hillary and McCain on issues of war and peace. Obama is a warmongering barbarian who evidently wants to develop a foreign policy that gave us escalation in Vietnam (Kennedy), Gulf War I and support of apartheid (GWHW) and Reagan (Iran/Contra -- 241 dead marines in Lebanon -- and Reagans' famous memory about a past where race issues weren't a problem -- his acceptance of Jim Crow days).

Nader or McKinney in 2008. We don't need more cowboy, militaristic diplimacy. You don't end the Iraq occupation by voting for someone committed to continuing it. Obama, Hillary and McCain all support continuing it and now that Obama's talked his foreign policy "heros" -- people who gave us Vietnam, Iran/Contra and the beginnings of the policies that led us into Iraq, it's clear if you vote for him you're voting for continuing murder and maiming of young Americans and Iraqis and whoever else the corporations determine to be their enemy in the future.

It's entirely possible his comments were directed toward the Republican cross-overs who he thinks are truly his supporters. I'm not doubting some Republicans are hoping for an end to the Bush years, but there's also a game being played.

If there are any Republicans posting at the moment who could speak to the cross-over reality, void of sarcasm, I would love to hear what your honest assessment is of this shift.

So, he's talking about Foreign Policy, and bringing up GWH Bush, but not Democratic President Jimmy Carter (Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Carter advocated a policy that held other countries to the highest moral standard possible, a standard by which, he believed, Americans would want themselves to be judged.) Jimmy later (2002) won the Nobel Peace prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/ - At least Jimmy Carter was in Obama's lifetime. I don't know what he's talking about with JFK...I remember being really terrified of a war during those years; the nightmare of waiting through the Bay of Pigs blockaid, and JFK put us in Vietnam. Not sure what Teddy is feeding Obama, but Obama needs to know there are still millions of people alive and voting who remember Foreign policy during the Kennedy years. http://www.vietnamwar.com/johnkennedyrole.htm

We all know why he purposefully skipped over Clinton, and included GWH Bush (Clinton speaks well of him) and Reagan. He thinks he can win this whole thing without the Clinton supporters coming to his side in November.

Two strikes in one shot. I now seriously question whether Obama is the right person for the Presidency. Aligning with anything from Bush, Sr. or Reagan makes me want to PUKE! Maybe someone should enlighten Obama to the fact that we are in the economic mess because of the policies Reagan initiated.

And then there was Iran--Contra. The crown jewel of the U.S. policy in dealing with other nations.

Those who ignore history are going to make the same mistakes.

The fact that McCain seems to think Reagan empolyed foreign policy that was similar to his own indicates that McCain's advanced age is affecting his memory. Reagan's foreign policy centered on creating a strong coalition of international cooperation before he confronted an enemy; and when the enemy was confronted, it was Reagan speaking in a quiet but forceful way and describing both the benefits of cooperation and dangers of confrontation with that coalition. Reagan would never have even considered unilateral invasion of Iraq (in violation of the UN charter), which McCain has placed as the cornerstone of his candidacy; and Reagan would never have considered the blusterous language used by McCain about Iran, which is largely responsible for the price you pay for gasoline every day.

With McCain being so ignorant of Reagan's foreign policy style, it's tempting to use the old phrase, "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

*GASP* He said something good about Republicans. Quick, somebody call the whaaaaaambulance.

Sen. Barack Obama said Friday he would return the country to the more "traditional" foreign policy efforts of past presidents, such as George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
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What is he nuts?


Just shows his lack of historical knowledge, back to the good old covert ops that occasionally exploded into major warfare for example Vietnam and the genocide in Cambodia. The same ops that caused so much bloodshed in Central and South America. The funding of jihad in Afghanistan that lead to 9-11.

Good grief the man is mad.

What is needed is a new American foreign policy not the disasterios policies of the past.

Does that mean will have another Bay of Pigs, Beirut baracks bombing disaster, Iran-Contra, etc.

Good grief absent a polarizing dialogue, republicans and democrats long engaged-in, what in the world will the media talk about!

For starters how about: John McCain!

The media literally protects McCain. While overseas, even after being corrected, McCain continued repeating an absurd assertion wrt Sunnis and Shiites. The press told us to ignore that.

The "ethics reformer" is breaking the finance reform laws he helped write. The press says nothing.

Having actively sought & received two controversial outside-mainstream endorsements, from Pastor Hagee and Rev. Parsley, McCain yester-year called agents of intolerance, today he panders. The media's silence is deafening.

McCain may have "experience" from decades of sitting on military and intelligence committees, but to what ends? More wars, more bellicosity. Cheney & Rumsfeld had plenty of "experience." Still nothing.

With neocon top advisors and lobbyists running his campaign clearly McCain has no intention of doing things differently. Furthermore he was never critical of the execution of the Iraq war; he even bestowed a compliment or two on Rumsfeld despite arguing otherwise. Nada.

Often McCain says, "My friends, there will be more wars." On the trail, McCain serenaded his audience singing bomb, bomb Iran to the tune of the Beach Boys song, "Barbara Anne." Nothing.

Make no doubt about it, McCain promises perpetual war, supports spying on Americans, embraces "unitary" executive power & believes in expanding American Imperialism. He'll be like Bush only on "steroids."

The corporate-owned media loves controversy, however, they love McCain more.

There has been some very good Republican Presidents. And some bad Democrats. To bias your opinion is to narrow your mind. For instance, I think Hillary will be a wonderful Republican :)

PATTING HIMSELF ON THE BACK, ONCE AGAIN!

Wow, Obama just comes right out and says he's like JFK and Reagan.

Oh, the arrogance.

Oh, the hubris.

Be ready for the fall.